Innovar Healthcare Knows How to Make Last Mile Interoperability a Reality

Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care. But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare.  It takes a real expert with the right connections to make interoperability a reality for healthcare organizations. Innovar Healthcare, therefore, focuses on converting patient records between different formats and vendors and getting the patient data where it needs to go. State HIEs, which must deal with a bewildering assortment of formats, are important clients that need help solving that last mile. Innovar Healthcare also branched out to help labs with data sharing when COVID-19 hit, and now is working more and more with digital health companies who have similar data sharing problems. The problem most organizations face with health data interoperability is that it is not just about the data or the formats.  Most IT organizations have the tech chops to be interoperable.  However, it takes more than technical knowledge to solve the interoperability problem.  You have to understand how the sending and receiving vendor formats and sends the data.  This often takes finding the right person at the company who can give you that info. In the video interview below, Bittle highlights how this sets Innovar Healthcare apart since in most cases they have already built the interface ...
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