The dream is a seamless ecosystem of connected medical devices--all leading to more effective and affordable management of people's health. Here are the challenges standing in the way. Chris Newmarker ...

Interoperability is the biggest challenge in achieving a successful UC deployment, according to 58% of IT professionals who participated in Nemertes’ research benchmark. Getting various legacy and new ...

Interoperability has been a longstanding goal for healthcare: The promise of being able to exchange data seamlessly between health information networks has been a goal the industry has been working ...

Big data, machine learning, and interoperability are all topics we’ve been hearing about for many years in health tech. But in fact these banner ideas are deeply intertwined with one another. Machine ...

As state agencies and healthcare providers face increasing demands to address behavioral health (BH) needs across the U.S., interoperability challenges continue to stand in the way. Manual reporting ...

A discussion at the HIMSS 2023 Interoperability Showcase highlights the barriers to data transfer between ambulances and hospitals. As healthcare organizations learn to use technology to gather, store ...

While health IT has the potential to make significant improvements in efficiency in healthcare organizations, it presents patient safety risks. In November, the Institute of Medicine published a ...

The semaphore flags used by Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory to signal his fleet before the battle of Trafalgar (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In days gone by, people relied ...

In addition, the forum has potential overlap with other groups promoting interoperability such as the SIPforum as well as standards bodies including the ITU and IETF. Still, the creation of the UCIF ...

Organizations that have been around for a while—such as many federal agencies—will find it particularly difficult to achieve their ultimate goal in designing ‘zero-trust’ systems, because various ...