Lack of technical readiness—from legacy technologies to data silos—continues to hold health plans back from achieving the promise of interoperability. It also creates barriers to innovation. These are ...

The legal battle between Epic and health data exchange network Health Gorilla may ultimately be less about one alleged misuse of patient records and more about the governance framework underpinning ...

Australian Special Minister of State, Senator Eric Abetz, earlier this month announced the release of the government's remodeled Technical Interoperability Framework, a vital step in improving ...

The term “metaverse” is overused, and we all feel it. It’s buzzy, pigeonholing, and doesn’t encompass how the underlying technologies could change everything, from meeting to playing, working to ...

Connecting the Unconnected is a monthly column by the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) that explores how technology can ...

An new report from the National Academy of Medicine charges that barriers to progress in healthcare interoperability are not technical, but "in the failure of organizational demand and purchasing ...

As technologies continue to advance, organizations are managing increasingly complex tech stacks. According to a 2022 survey of IT and security professionals, organizations are now using an average of ...

Our industry is rightfully chasing a utopic vision of interoperability — a single, unified, fully-reconciled patient record seamlessly accessible to the patient and all providers at any time, and one ...

The U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), the combatant command responsible for homeland defense, has established a situational awareness room that is used in operations as well as exercises. Joint event ...

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) operators at their workstations, Senior Chief Stephen Jones, USCG (l), and Petty Officer 1 st Class Scott Smith, USCG, brief German visitors during ...