HealthIT Answers December 10, 2025

In 2025, health interoperability advanced through widespread FHIR adoption, new CMS frameworks, and deeper integration with AI and virtual healthcare. This year marked a turning point for interoperability, shifting from compliance-driven to innovation-driven, enabling real-time, secure data exchange across systems and patient-facing apps.

As healthcare continues its digital evolution, the promise of truly connected care depends on one thing: interoperability. In 2026, data sharing will no longer purely be a technical challenge; rather, it will be a strategic imperative driving care coordination, innovation, and patient empowerment. Yet, achieving seamless data exchange across systems, organizations, and ecosystems remains our lifelong work in progress. What will 2026 bring us when it comes to interoperability? We asked our experts what progress they think...

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