Forbes October 25, 2018
Open standards promised big opportunities for better outcomes in health care, but it never quite materialized. Now, concrete steps in achieving interoperability via standardization are finally being taken. This article is a review of some of the strongest efforts in the field.
The move toward the acceptance and application of open standards in health care has moved forward sporadically. During meaningful use initiatives pushed by the federal government, we witnessed attempts at interoperability to comply with mandated standards, but many vendors still kept health care data locked up whenever they could. We still see challenges within the industry around workflow and policy definitions in terms of data capture and usage.
One of the core problems is that health care as...
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