Interoperability, connected care and cloud computing

February 10, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from CDW. Author: Editorial Staff.

It’s “heart”-ening just how many technologies there are to love this Valentine’s Day. Our HIT List this week is sweet on interoperability, connected care and cloud computing, to name just a few. Where would you have Cupid take aim?

1. Fast, flexible and free. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, aka FHIR, is a new standards framework garnering some serious attention from healthcare leaders and vendors. Developed by Health Level Seven (HL7) International, the no-cost FHIR platform is designed to help organizations quickly and easily address the increasing demand for interoperability. Bet you can’t wait to find out more…

2. The secret to connected care. For telemedicine to live up to its hype about improving outcomes, it has to be combined with active clinical intervention in a truly connected care delivery model. In other words, providers must collect patient data frequently, use that data to interpret the situation and tie that insight into a clinical action. Check out how this approach helped a cardiac patient radically defy the odds…

Read more from the source @ http://industryview.cdwcommunit.com/index.php/2015/02/10/interoperability-hit-2/