Partners HealthCare: Redesigning Healthcare Delivery Through Strategic Interoperability

James Noga, VP and CIO, Partners HealthCare. Interoperability is a foundational investment for integrated delivery networks wanting to derive value from data. At a tactical level, interoperability enables the ability to exchange, normalize, and aggregate data across multiple systems and devices and across organizational boundaries. However, it is at the strategic level that interoperability can advance key initiatives to improve the quality of care and outcomes for individual patients, communities, and populations. Jim discusses the importance of strategic interoperability in addressing organizational business, technology, and clinical challenges and specifically how, for Partners HealthCare, interoperability addresses both its tactical needs and long-term strategic vision.  The presentation includes how to elevate interoperability from a tactical capability to a strategic asset, how to use it to help fill informational and functional gaps, and how strategic interoperability can help your organization in a complex network of providers, systems, and technologies.