Technical Lab for Medical Interoperability

Ed Cantwell, President and CEO, and Aaron Goldmuntz, SVP Comprehensive Interoperability, Center for Medical Interoperability. Ed and Aaron introduce the Center for Medical Interoperability, a non-profit organization led by health systems with a vision to accelerate the seamless exchange of information to improve healthcare for all. They discuss how this approach, modeled after other industry centralized labs, is serving as a national R&D lab and test & certification resource to address technical challenges related to healthcare data security, connectivity and interoperability. They also discuss the importance of the role of health system leadership and alignment in achieving data liquidity and comprehensive interoperability on behalf of the person, and show why starting at the point of care is critical, with concrete initial steps to secure connectivity and security of medical technologies.