Interoperability is ‘impossible in the abstract’

Healthcare IT News December 4, 2014
Mike Miliard

“I’d like to see a world where you get paid because you have good informaticians,” said Doug Fridsma, MD, former chief scientist at ONC and now CEO of AMIA, speaking Wednesday at RSNA’s 100th annual meeting in Chicago.
The key to making that world a reality, of course, is enabling the free flow of information of all types – from lab results to medications to imaging data – within and between healthcare organizations of all shapes and sizes.
Widespread interoperability has been elusive so far, but ONC has been working on an expansive 10-year roadmap pointing the way toward full-on data liquidity, from sea to shining sea. In the meantime, there’s a lot of hard work to do.
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