Medical Economics April 29, 2022
As health care leaders navigate our transition from life in a pandemic to a world where COVID-19 is an endemic disease, interoperability will likely be top of mind. As we enter the pandemic’s third year, we can expect four new drivers to propel interoperability:
1 Trust and interoperability
Interoperability and the recent surge in support from health care leaders for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), spurred by federal mandates, have unlocked previously siloed data stored behind propitiatory internal enterprise systems. By mandating that patient data be made accessible via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and standardized formats, health care is effectively liberating data resources, allowing parties beyond payers and providers to create value on behalf of patients.
Now data have the...