ONC chief Don Rucker on the current state and ‘next frontier’ of interoperability

Healthcare has been striving for the Holy Grail of sweeping, seamless, semantic interoperability for a very long time. Progress has been achieved over the past decade, but it’s been in fits and starts, and after many years of well-meaning policy prescriptions, too many major stakeholders – whether they’re health systems, payersor vendors – still cling to old ways of doing business and often jealously guard the data they’ve amassed.