FHA director discusses progress of health IT interoperability projects

FHA director discusses progress of health IT interoperability projects

FHA director discusses progress of health IT interoperability projects

Date: Apr 05, 2010

We interviewed Vish Sankaran, director of the Federal Health Architecture program, about how the FHA is advancing its mission of health IT interoperability with such open source tools as Connect and popHealth. He explains how Connect provides a universal client framework, allowing innovators to build applications that will add intelligence to health data as it moves through a secure pipe. The popHealth tool, which is a prototype, can be downloaded and integrated into an existing electronic health record, or EHR, system to automate population health reporting.

According to Sankaran, one of the most important lessons attendees of the HIMSS10 annual conference should have taken home is that health IT interoperability is gaining traction. He believes health organizations are moving beyond theory and into implementation, noting the numerous real-world examples of interoperability being demonstrated at the FHA booth at this year's conference.

Watch this video to see what else Sankaran has to say about the future of health IT interoperability.

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