Healthcare Data Integrity and Interoperability Standards Podcast – John DonnellyAs the healthcare industry moves closer to full scale implementation of health information exchanges and integrated delivery networks, the call for data integrity and interoperability standards has grown increasingly louder to help ensure that data quality isn’t compromised so physicians and patients can have complete confidence in the information reflected by their electronic health records.We interviewed John Donnelly, President of IntePro Solutions in Colonia NJ and an expert in healthcare technology standards, interoperability and innovation about data integrity and data standardization protocols in the context of the shift to electronic medical records and the subsequent data sharing across health information exchanges.

Topics covered in the podcast: What major challenges does healthcare face as they begin to share

patient data across health information exchanges? With the pressure to conform with health information exchange

requirements, what changes have you seen health systems make to their strategic vision of quality healthcare?

How does data visibility change the patient-provider relationship? How does patient identification affect data integrity in a health

information exchange? What technologies do you see as the future of patient identification in healthcare?

Do you see the growing importance of health information exchange’s having any effect on State regulations for patient privacy and security?

Health information exchanges typically allow patients to opt out or are operating in opt-in states, potentially lowering the quality of data. What do you feel are the primary benefits that patients should be educated on about the importance of health information exchanges?