“Interoperability is not something you can buy, and not something you can sell,” according to Mario G. Hyland, founder and senior vice president of AEGIS. With this commentary on IT companies trying to promise data sharing as a turn-key solution or package, Hyland lays out in this video his vision of “point-in-time interoperability,” which would allow bidirectional data exchange among multiple organizations while the patient is undergoing a health care episode.
AEGIS offers testing for interoperability, helping companies ensure that they have interpreted health data standards such as U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and FHIR properly during development, QA, integration, and ultimately at the client site.
Testing becomes even more critical, according to Hyland, as the number of products coming onto the health data market reaches hundreds of thousands. At the same time, the FDA wants implementations to hit the market faster and CMS rewards institutions for interoperability not just for installing the right products, but only when the data sharing is actually successful.
Most healthcare organizations underestimate what it takes to ensure their interoperability infrastructure is working correctly. As new software versions are released, data sharing can break. As new standards are implemented, data sharing can break. Having a way to test the wide variety of software, standards, and versions in your organization is going to be even more important as we come to rely on those data sharing efforts.
Watch the video for Hyland’s insights into dealing with versions of standards, putting patients in control, and making interoperability testing a community endeavor.
Learn more about AEGIS: https://www.aegis.net/
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