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Our last Newsletter focused on Testing and highlighted a research note authored by Gartner Research Vice President, Barry Runyon, which explains the importance of healthcare information system interoperability – specifically the testing needed to ensure it. We described it at the time as a part of the interoperability puzzle that AEGIS feels is often overlooked or de-emphasized.
This edition places another piece of the puzzle anchoring around Rick Howard's, "Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for Government 2015" published by Gartner in April. One of those Top 10 Trends he identifies is Scalable Interoperability. We're happy to see a spotlight placed on interoperability that explains there is more accountability to the challenge than a system demonstrating that it can interoperate at a particular point in time. Interoperability that isn't scalable and continuous is not interoperability that patients and providers can depend upon.
- The Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for Government in 2015
- Rick Howard
- 28 April 2015
- Gartner's 2015 top strategic technology trends for government are the prime enablers of new service models for digital government. CIOs and IT leaders can use this research to assess the impact of these technologies on their IT organizations, and to determine the business value for their agencies.
Key Findings
- Government CIOs who explain digital innovation in terms of business priorities – such as citizen experience, operational efficiency and improved outcomes – have the opportunity to increase support for IT investments among their agencies' executive leaders.
- The limitations of e-government service models reflect the constraints of inflexible architectures and traditional IT management practices, which are compelling government CIOs to factor emerging technology trends into their digital government strategic plans.
Recommendations
Government CIOs and IT leaders:
- Gain support for digital innovation from public officials and administrators by presenting relevant examples of what the consumer service industry or other digitally savvy government agencies have done with digital, how they have done it, and what the results have been.
- Factor these top 10 technology trends into your IT planning activities. Determine which trends are most applicable to your agency's business strategy, and consider the various ways they can run, innovate or transform your organization.
Industry Innovation
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The AEGIS Interoperability Scorecard
From AEGIS Insights – the AEGIS Blog
What exactly defines operational interoperability, and how does one measure that in a way that is most relevant, independent and understandable? Introducing the AEGIS Interoperability Scorecard. Read all about it in our blog.
First Person Perspective on Interoperability
By Michael Callihan
AEGIS invests a lot of resources in support of advancing interoperability of electronic health information. The AEGIS DIL provides an unparalleled platform for helping EHR vendors, exchanges, standards organizations, and certification bodies test for interoperability and standards conformance.
What's Happening at AEGIS?
By Barry Dickman
Over the course of the last several years AEGIS has been a sought after expert on standards-based conformance & interoperability testing and routinely called upon by industry for our participation in workgroups, panels, symposiums healthcare organizations, standards development bodies and testimonies. Below is a short list of our contribution, recap of AEGIS' activities and participation in industry:
