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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

RPA is a great example of health technology in the unvendor environment. This is a great example of the power of un-vendoring, Harm asserts. RPA is but one of many examples Harm pointed to: one of the areas that strongly resonated with me was population health, which is not easily managed through the single-vendor EHR.

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OntarioMD is Making Interoperability a Priority for Ontario

Healthcare IT Today

In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today , Aidan Lee, Director of the Certification Program at OntarioMD , and Matt LaDuke, Director of Products, Integrations, and Service Management, shed light on the evolving landscape of electronic medical records (EMRs) and the state of interoperability in the healthcare sector.

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Pushing Forward Healthcare Interoperability Efforts by The Sequoia Project in 2025

Healthcare IT Today

While they have gotten a lot of attention for being the TEFCA RCE, The Sequoia Project has almost a dozen healthcare interoperability projects they are working on. For example, privacy and consent have been hot topics in the world of healthcare interoperability with new regulations popping-up across the country.

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Improving EHR Systems with User Experience and Interface Design to Reduce Clinician Burnout and Enhance Workflow Efficiency

Healthcare IT Today

For example, getting new ambient AI technology deployed and integrated with the EHR or equipping clinician-researchers with the latest clinical trial data from the EHR. Additionally, prioritizing mobile accessibility and interoperability ensures that clinicians can access and update patient records seamlessly across devices and platforms.

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EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

Healthcare IT Today

An EHR system needs to make a 360-degree view of patient data accessible in a secure manner that can be made available using standard interfaces like FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs for structured data exchange and DICOM for imaging.

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Reducing Administrative Costs Within US Healthcare: A Summary

Continue Education Journal

These parts are 1) establishing a clearinghouse for bill submission, 2) simplifying prior authorizations, 3) harmonizing quality reporting, and 4) enhancing data interoperability in the health-care system. For example, chronic conditions would only need to be authorized every year instead of every month, lowering the administrative cost.

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Pharmacy Interoperability and Pharmacy Perspectives Coming Out of the ONC Annual Meeting

Healthcare IT Today

Patient education is just one example of many where pharmacists could take a more active role in the healthcare system and we could all benefit from pharmacists’ expertise. Another area where we haven’t enabled pharmacists has to do with pharmacy interoperability.