In a recent blog post, Renard Currie, Director, Product Management at Infor explains why interoperability is personal.
We have all been patients at one time or another and, chances are, helped ailing friends or loved ones navigate a healthcare facility or system. And we can all tell the same stories about frustrating wait times, being asked the same information over and over, and how we often felt like we weren't getting all of the information we needed and wanted.
We're all frustrated by experiences like this, and one of the things we need to look at is Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). It was a hot topic at HIMSS16, and will continue to take up quite a bit of mindshare in the coming months and years as healthcare organizations struggle to figure out the magic bullet required to make patients' experiences within healthcare better, and also engage those patients even more in their care, according to the post.
One of the challenges we highlighted during HIMSS was based on experiences our client, Hackensack University Medical Center, had and how they are putting a stop to situations in the doctor's office where patients fill out multiple forms that ask for nearly the same information. In this short video, Hackensack University Medical Center's Brian Benson and Modi Boutrs discuss how their organization took the pledge to participate in the White House Precision Medicine Initiative in 2015 as part of its commitment to patient empowerment and engagement.
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