Would you pay top dollar for anything—a car, phone, television, whatever—that promises truly transformational technology at some unspecified future date?I doubt you would. We generally buy products for what they offer now, not what the company says they will eventually do (vaporware, as IT calls it).And yet, so many hospitals pay multi-billions of dollars for healthcare IT systems that promise to integrate patient care … eventually. Why? Some argue the primary reason is a false market that was
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HIT Interoperablity
McKesson Launches Interoperability Platform to Build FHIR API Apps
Today, McKesson Health Solutions (MHS) unveiled the McKesson Intelligence Hub, a new technology platform for enabling interoperability and sharing business intelligence among healthcare apps. The result of a multi-year development program, the Intelligence Hub is designed to connect MHS’s portfolio of automated reimbursement solutions and help streamline payment by making interoperability easy for customers, partners and vendors across the healthcare ecosystem.Moving Beyond Data
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HHS & ONC To Invest $28M to Advance HIT Interoperablity
After issuing the nationwide health IT Interoperability Roadmap draft late last week, the ONC today announced it will invest $28 million to advance the adoption and use of interoperable health IT tools and services to support the exchange of health information. These investments will improve care coordination, which in turn will help achieve the goal of better care, smarter spending, and healthier people.
Grant Program Overview
The two-year grant program will provide between 10 to 12 awards
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