EMRs, APIs, App stores & all that: More data
Conclusion
At Health 2.0 we’ve been trying to shine a light on this topic for some time, and the good folks at SMART on FHIR (the Mandel/Mandl twins, Zak Kohane et al) and the Argonaut/FHIR/CARIN crowd (Graeme Grieve, Aneesh Chopra & a cast of hundreds), have all been banging the drum as well as laying down great work for several years. And yet it’s health tech, so slow incremental progress is probably what we should expect. The state of play is that the big vendors are all now awake to the issue, but there’s lots to sort out before access to data and integration into APIs becomes as automatic as we see outside of health care. Patients with complex diseases still have multiple portals often into multiple version of Epic, and leading journalists are still writing stories about having to have tests redone because they can’t get the images or data to cross the street. But I get the sense that the levee is sprouting leaks. Cerner and Allscripts are moving most on-site installations to public and private cloud, AWS and Google Cloud are sniffing around as data storage providers and starting their own partnership programs. Epic remains Epic, but has an app store and is reacting to some of the criticism.
I’m also hoping that this type of a survey will soon become irrelevant because the topic about access to data and ability to integrate applications will soon become one of those things that we wake up one day and realize aren’t problems anymore. We’ll check back in ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health 2.0 Matthew Holt Allscripts API athenahealth Cerner EMR Epic health technology Source Type: blogs
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