Healthcare DIVE March 25, 2022
The National Coordinator for Health IT spoke in an an interview on the sidelines of the HIMSS conference
Interoperability was a central focus at the annual HIMSS conference in Orlando, with a slew of companies from large EHR vendors like Cerner to interoperability startups such as Health Gorilla peddling their data-sharing solutions last week. Their goal: to help coordinate care across thousands of miles and between disparate providers and health IT systems.
The federal government has been especially active in this space as well, even before the pandemic highlighted the nation’s lack of unfettered health-data sharing.
The Biden administration recently released its framework for countrywide data exchange, called TEFCA, and is also beginning to see information-blocking complaints trickle in, measures...