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By Daniel Howard – Senior Analyst, Information Management

Health insurance providers have navigated many changes over the past couple of years, adapting and modernizing their technology stack to comply with a handful of CMS regulations including the Interoperability Rule (9115F), Transparency in Coverage and the No Surprises Act. Concurrently, they are trying to grow their business and increases their margins, all while navigating a global pandemic. Adopting an interoperability strategy and plan is a critical aspect to meeting the numerous challenges and changes that continue to emerge.

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In this webinar, WEDI welcomes Alexandra Mugge, Director and Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer with the CMS Health Informatics and Interoperability Group, to address key elements of the Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes proposed rule. Daniel Kalwa, Acting Director, National Standards Group, CMS, joins Mugge to discuss the proposed attachment rule. Viet Nguyen, MD, Chief Standards Implementation Officer with HL7, presents on the FHIR component to the rule and how HL7 plans to support the industry in meeting the 2026 date. Lynda Rowe, InterSystems Senior Advisor, Value-based Markets, walks through some of the proposed rule’s changes to the original interoperability rule (9115-F) and the implications it will have for payers.

Simon Ellis, Program Vice President of Manufacturing Insights and Global Supply Chain Strategies at IDC, highlights how global supply chains continue to modernize their applications. IDC forecasts supply chain growth of around 5% year on year through 2026.

Business leaders frequently hear that data is their most valuable asset. And while few would refute the claim, there is a big difference between understanding the theory and being able to put it into practice. Following the wholesale shift to digital banking, banks hold a wealth of historical and customer data. But to realise its true value, they must be able to access, make sense of and deploy it to support real-time decision-making.

Business leaders frequently hear that data is their most valuable asset. And while few would refute the claim, there is a big difference between understanding the theory and being able to put it into practice. According to the World Retail Banking Report 2022, 73% of banking executives say their companies struggle to turn data into useful insights and 70% say they lack the resources to adequately process and analyse data.

88% ranked having a vendor-supplied clinical data model as critical to accelerating their work.*","theme.inter-systems-theme-default.:core:enhancement:Enhancement.hbs.enhancementAlignment":null,"theme.inter-systems-theme-default.:core:enhancement:Enhancement.hbs._template":null,"_id":"00000185-369d-dd17-a98d-bebf306a0000","_type":"7037641b-89f2-3005-99fe-b58e229bb033"}">90% of developers surveyed are interested in using a unified database platform that includes an interoperability engine, analytics tools, healthcare-oriented natural language processing capabilities, machine learning tools, and a FHIR server.* 88% ranked having a vendor-supplied clinical data model as critical to accelerating their work.*InterSystems IRIS for Health™ is a unified database and development platform built by Health IT developers for Health IT developers. It gives you the fastest route to getting innovative healthcare apps up and running quickly and delivering sustainable value.

As an emergency department nurse in the 1990s, Kimberly Strand and her colleagues knew little about their patients. Healthcare’s reliance on paper records meant it was all but impossible to acquire medical histories and allergies for people who showed up unconscious. The lack of data risked patient health and concerned clinicians.

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