Healthcare Interoperability : From Buzzword to APIs
summary
A field investigation finds a pile of faxes still exchanging patient data across counties while federal programs push real APIs: CMS ships Blue Button 2.0 and a Beneficiary Claims Data API using FHIR and OAuth, covering about 60 million beneficiaries, and pilots the first bulk FHIR implementations. The claim is that regulation plus government-built, open reference implementations produce usable, standards-based APIs; the surprising gap is widespread faxing and one-off integrations despite these live government API products.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 4:51What is interoperability in healthcare?
- 5:37In the modern software industry, the conversation isn't about interoperability; it's about APIs.
- 15:15Simply automating or digitizing manual processes and data exchange Isn't enough.
- 15:32The journey to interoperability
- 23:46From "interoperability" to interoperable APIs
- 27:59Let's reach our destination through user-focused, patient-centered, standards-based APIs.
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