Data now streaming in around vaccines, their administration, and efficiency will need to move past previous practices, consultant says.
New federal rules on interoperability between healthcare information systems are poised to make a substantial impact in 2021. On October 30, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
publishedthe final 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. Patient-centered aspects of the plan describe the goal of having patient care information follow patients from any provider to any other provider, and to be accessible from their smart phones.
HealthLeaders spoke with Seth Hirsch, chief operating officer of
SES Corp., a consulting firm to commercial and government organizations, about interoperability and other major trends impacting healthcare and healthcare IT in the coming year.