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I don’t know about you, but I was thrilled to hear about today’s launch of MEDS-ED Link, a project of the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NoVaRHIO) in conjunction with Inova Health System and GE Healthcare.
Standing in the Interoperability Showcase at HIMSS10 is frankly amazing. We are participating in the Emergency Department interoperability scenarios, passing clinical documentation to and from other systems, using IHE standards for information exchange. I was standing with a friend and CMIO who is a practicing physician, and when he saw how easy it was to get information regardless of source, his comment was, ”This is how it is supposed to work, how it was always supposed to work.” I agree. And more vendors than ever are participating.
Talking with the HIMSS folks that orchestrated the impressive setup, I come to find that the numbers of folks “interoperating” in this display have more than doubled in the past two years, now demoing nearly 60 use cases and 28 clinical scenarios. Similar to the IHE show in January, the interest in interoperability and move to embrace standards at HIMSS is palpable. And it’s not just on the show floor – I have been talking to vendors all over that are now delivering or planning to deliver shortly to their customers this type of technology.
