How Carequality, The Sequoia Project, and eHealth Exchange Support the Interoperable Exchange of Health Data in the USA.

Every organization in the health IT industry plays an important role in overcoming barriers to health information exchange in the United States. It is important to understand imaging interoperability in the overall context of Health Information Exchange (HIE). The rapid evolution of storage, bandwidth and network transport technologies has made the handling of imaging data converge with the primarily text-based healthcare data.

The RSNA ImageShare - Enabling Secure, Transparent, and Easy Image Exchange.

In the early 2000s, the radiology community was awakened to the limitations of electronic media (CDs, DVDs) for exchanging imaging exams. Clinicians frustrated by the time-consuming task of opening discs, while Internet-based exchange of music, photos, and videos were becoming more widespread. The RSNA, which had extensive experience working on interoperability issues in medical imaging, began to look for opportunities to address the issue.

An Interview with the Carequality Imaging Use Case Implementers.

Imagine you had a cell phone plan that only allowed you to call other customers within the same carrier network. That is the situation most healthcare providers experience when joining a data sharing network. Carequality is a network-to-network trust framework that brings together the entire healthcare industry to overcome this challenge by providing a national-level, consensus built, common interoperability framework to enable health information exchange between and among health data sharing networks.