With skilled nursing facilities preparing for an Oct. 1 deadline for new quality measures, government officials are emphasizing their focus is to make quality the basis for value. “Quality is the ...

When a patient walks into a hospital, there’s no guarantee that patient’s medical records will be accessible to providers, or that the medical records are indeed the correct ones for that particular ...

"Internationally, 2026 is the breakout year where interoperability and connectivity become procurement gatekeepers," said Doug Brown, Founder of Black Book Market Research. "Where policy and payer ...

Beta News has done a lengthy interview with Microsoft General Manager for Interoperability and Standards Tom Robertson that goes into some depth regarding how Microsoft views the standardization ...

As the secure credentials industry is looking for ways to escape vendor lock-in and coalesce around standards that allow interoperability, the nature of these standards and what they offer becomes of ...

Market dynamics and related business objectives have stimulated interest in Real-time Performance Management (RPM). Manufacturing software suppliers and several new RPM-focused suppliers have ...

The American Medical Informatics Association and Health Level Seven International on Tuesday announced a new partnership to drive efforts to broaden use of comprehensive standards for healthcare ...

In a press conference this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and chief software architect Ray Ozzie announced a new initiative designed to open up its products and foster better interoperability ...

Progress has been made in healthcare with improving data interoperability, or "data liquidity," the ability of data to securely flow from one place to another, as needed and appropriate, for patient ...

When an open source advocate, open standards advocate, or, well, pretty much anyone that competes with Microsoft (news, site) sees an extended hand from the software giant toward better ...

Interoperability of different Web services specifications came closer to fruition with this week’s release of the Basic Profile 1.0 by the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization. Covering ...