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From Interoperability to Digital Transformation

Healthcare IT Today

Interoperability, an idiosyncratic term for data sharing, has been a key buzzword for both regulators and digital product vendors in health care. ” I remember going to interoperability showcases at HIMSS conferences and feeling strange that companies needed to demonstrate that their computer could exchange data.

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Lyniate and NextGate Announce Merger Agreement, Advancing Healthcare Interoperability Leadership

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Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer.

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Interoperability Perspectives and Insights from the eHealth Exchange Annual Meeting

Healthcare IT Today

What do you think of this analogy between pipes, plumbing, and clean water with health data interoperability? Public Health is becoming a major discussion in most healthcare interoperability discussions. Plus, it’s hard to define someone as a bad actor when the definition can be interpreted broadly and in different ways.

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Health Data and Interoperability Infrastructure Needs

Healthcare IT Today

Tomorrow we’ll share some of the responses to the more classic definition of IT infrastructure. However, amidst the IT infrastructure responses we received a number of health IT experts talking about the importance of health data and interoperability infrastructure. The responses we got were quite interesting.

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NextGen Healthcare Enters into Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by Thoma Bravo

Healthcare IT Today

a leading provider of innovative, cloud-based healthcare technology solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Thoma Bravo , a leading software investment firm. NextGen Healthcare Shareholders to Receive $23.95 Per Share in Cash, a 46.4%

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Lyniate Merges with CareCom, Further Extending Capabilities of Interoperability Leader

Healthcare IT Today

Semantic Interoperability Pioneer, CareCom, Improves Clinician Experience with Advanced Healthcare Terminology Mapping and NLP Conversion of Unstructured Data. Interoperability challenges exist at multiple levels, and we see semantic integration as integral to meaningful data exchange,” said Erkan Akyuz , CEO of Lyniate.