How Interoperability Should Help, Not Hurt, Health Disparity and Health Inequity

With so much evolving in healthcare and technology, it can be hard to keep up and difficult to see where the work that we, and our peers, do is being applied to help caregivers and patients. 

That's why we've hand-selected these recent articles featuring the world of healthcare interoperability and other related issues that our team finds to be worth a quick read.

• VA Awards 5 Imaging Data Exchange Contracts to Boost Interoperability
• VA ‘On the Cusp’ of Rolling out Telepresence Tech in Healthcare
• VA’s Extended Reality Network Expanding Across Agency

• Using Standards to Focus on Transitions of Care

SDOs & Other Organizations

• At a Leading Health Tech Conference, Enthusiasm for Machine Learning Mixes with Calls for Greater Scrutiny
• NCQA Launches Program to Help Ensure Accuracy of Clinical Data for Quality Reporting
• Health and Wellness Apps

Healthcare Topics

• FHIR Document Digital Signatures
• Interoperability is a Rural Health Disparity
• A Look at HIEs and 2 Perspectives for Data Exchange
• How Social Determinants of Health Documentation Impacts Health Equity
• Fixing Healthcare, Part Two

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