Application programming interfaces are all the rage in healthcare and just about every other industry undergoing digital transformation. And with the release of Health Level 7’s Fast Health Interoperability Resources 4 earlier this month, the excitement around open APIs, FHIR and data interoperability just kicked into a higher gear. “Increasing…
The Developer Innovation Lab offers hands-on lessons at HIMSS19
One of the highlights of the upcoming HIMSS19 Global Conference & Exhibition will be the Developer Innovation Lab, a specialty pavilion designed to help spur innovation in the field of health IT. The lab is run by HIMSS and sponsored by Google Cloud. “Today, health innovators can create health applications…
Rush to become first 5G hospital system in U.S.
Mobile data is about to get a lot faster at the Rush System for Health in Chicago. The hospital system has partnered with AT&T to become what it says is the first in the nation to use a standards-based 5G network in a healthcare setting. Rush is also implementing AT&T’s…
Stanford sees healthcare democratization a big trend for 2019 and beyond
With the extreme proliferation of data comes the opportunity to further democratize healthcare, according to Stanford University School of Medicine’s 2018 Health Trends Report. The university found that the influx of data was taking healthcare by storm and that technologies that were old hat in other industries are still in…