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That\u2019s the message Micky Tripathi, president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, delivered on Monday during the opening keynote at a HIMSS18 pre-conference symposium in Las Vegas.

\u201cI don\u2019t think we really have an end state where we say, \u2018We\u2019ve got interoperability\u2014it\u2019s done! Now, we can focus on other things,\u2019 \u201d said Tripathi who is also manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry-wide effort to accelerate the development and adoption of HL7\u2019s emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. \u201cWe\u2019re always going to be moving goal lines.\u201d

Also See:<\/b> Why healthcare interoperability moves at a snail\u2019s pace<\/a>

Nonetheless, Tripathi sees a time in the very near future when the vast majority of providers\u201480 percent\u2014will be able send electronic health records securely to the vast majority of other providers anywhere in the country, as well as having the ability to request and retrieve EHRs.

\u201cJust through the efforts of Carequality and CommonWell, I will submit that we\u2019re going to roughly be there over the next two to three years,\u201d he predicted, calling it essentially the achievement of nationwide interoperability.

In December 2016, CommonWell Health Alliance and The Sequoia Project announced an agreement to increase HIT connectivity nationwide, including providing additional health data sharing options between Carequality\u2014an initiative of The Sequoia Project\u2014and CommonWell. More recently, CommonWell said it has completed the required steps to begin piloting Carequality connectivity with initial provider sites.

\u201cIn anticipation of completing the process, CommonWell members have already secured pilot clients to participate in exchange starting this spring,\u201d according to CommonWell Executive Director Jitin Asnaani, writing in a March 1 blog post. \u201cPending a successful pilot, it is anticipated that data sharing through bi-directional directed queries will be generally available between CommonWell subscribers and Carequality implementers this summer.\u201d

A report issued last week by KLAS Research made the case that barriers to sharing data will go away when CommonWell connects to Carequality.

\u201cBecause sharing among Epic customers is already universal, when CommonWell connects to Carequality, the entire Epic base will become available, creating instant value for most areas of the country,\u201d according to KLAS. \u201cCommonWell will likely see a significant adoption increase with a solid Carequality connection.\u201d

While the Carequality-CommonWell collaboration will \u201cnot solve every use case,\u201d Tripathi concluded that it\u2019s important for the industry to recognize the \u201csignificant win points along the way\u201d to nationwide interoperability.","saveContent":"As the healthcare industry attempts to solve the challenges standing in the way of interoperable health IT systems, stakeholders must recognize that there is no ultimate endpoint or goal for interoperability\u2014it will always be a work in progress.

That\u2019s the message Micky Tripathi, president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, delivered on Monday during the opening keynote at a HIMSS18 pre-conference symposium in Las Vegas.

\u201cI don\u2019t think we really have an end state where we say, \u2018We\u2019ve got interoperability\u2014it\u2019s done! Now, we can focus on other things,\u2019 \u201d said Tripathi who is also manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry-wide effort to accelerate the development and adoption of HL7\u2019s emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. \u201cWe\u2019re always going to be moving goal lines.\u201d

Also See:<\/b> Why healthcare interoperability moves at a snail\u2019s pace<\/a>

Nonetheless, Tripathi sees a time in the very near future when the vast majority of providers\u201480 percent\u2014will be able send electronic health records securely to the vast majority of other providers anywhere in the country, as well as having the ability to request and retrieve EHRs.

\u201cJust through the efforts of Carequality and CommonWell, I will submit that we\u2019re going to roughly be there over the next two to three years,\u201d he predicted, calling it essentially the achievement of nationwide interoperability.

In December 2016, CommonWell Health Alliance and The Sequoia Project announced an agreement to increase HIT connectivity nationwide, including providing additional health data sharing options between Carequality\u2014an initiative of The Sequoia Project\u2014and CommonWell. More recently, CommonWell said it has completed the required steps to begin piloting Carequality connectivity with initial provider sites.

\u201cIn anticipation of completing the process, CommonWell members have already secured pilot clients to participate in exchange starting this spring,\u201d according to CommonWell Executive Director Jitin Asnaani, writing in a March 1 blog post. \u201cPending a successful pilot, it is anticipated that data sharing through bi-directional directed queries will be generally available between CommonWell subscribers and Carequality implementers this summer.\u201d

A report issued last week by KLAS Research made the case that barriers to sharing data will go away when CommonWell connects to Carequality.

\u201cBecause sharing among Epic customers is already universal, when CommonWell connects to Carequality, the entire Epic base will become available, creating instant value for most areas of the country,\u201d according to KLAS. \u201cCommonWell will likely see a significant adoption increase with a solid Carequality connection.\u201d

While the Carequality-CommonWell collaboration will \u201cnot solve every use case,\u201d Tripathi concluded that it\u2019s important for the industry to recognize the \u201csignificant win points along the way\u201d to nationwide interoperability.","order":0,"get_parent":{},"attributes":[],"attributesType":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"dynamicContent":""}]

Industry moves forward a few steps on road to interoperability

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