Healthcare IT News January 16, 2020
Vendors offer their perspective on the opportunities and challenges for healthcare data exchange in the year ahead.
The new consumer-driven health information ecosystem is transforming the way health systems deliver care. As always, interoperability – be it among care teams or across disparate settings – is a key challenge.
While major strides are being taken to improve the way medical data and electronic health records can be transferred, analyzed and shared, major hurdles to full interoperability remain, and will be a key development point in healthcare IT this year.
“I see the barriers being the way standards are defined and implemented,” James Lloyd, co-founder and CTO of Redox, told Healthcare IT News.
“Currently, standards are intentionally customizable and extensible, and...