Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Joins the RTLS Parade.

BOSTON--Due to its simplicity and ease of use, Health 7 International's (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resource (FHIR) standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically is gaining steam and may pave the path to greater interoperability, said HL7 CEO Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, speaking at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 29.

BOSTON--People may be skeptical of the phrase “government innovation” but the government has been a catalyst for innovation in several instances, including its work on GPS, transistors and fracking technology. “This was all created and funded by the government and fundamentally changed the world,” said Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 29.

BOSTON--Clinical advancements are happening more quickly than ever before along with increasing regulations and compliance requirements, said O’Neil Britton, MD, chief health information officer for Partners HealthCare, speaking at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 28.

BOSTON—The current healthcare environment is a “perfect storm of opportunity,” but the activity might not equal the achievement, said Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, vice president and chief medical information and innovation officer officer for Merck. Jain spoke during the Medical Informatics World Congress on April 28.

BOSTON--Health organizations that strive for actionable data, or that wish to avoid being data rich and information poor, must commit themselves to pursuing a “single source of truth,” said Barbara Bartley, senior director of clinical decision support at the Health Care Authority for Baptist Health, based in Alabama, speaking at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 28.

BOSTON--“ACOs want to do population health, but it’s not that easy to do,” said Hadi Kharrazi, MHI, MD, PhD,  John Hopkins University School of Public Health and School of Medicine, speaking at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 28.

BOSTON--To keep a focus on innovation while managing the long list of federal mandates in healthcare, John Halamka, MD, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), said incorporating newer technologies is essential. Halamka spoke at the Medical Informatics World Conference on April 28 about SMAC—social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies.