When I look at the state of communication in healthcare, I can see that we’ve made a lot of progress. Certainly, there’s still plenty of work to be done, but the good news is that now we have electronic options when it comes to communicating healthcare data between organizations. This wasn’t really true even a decade ago. In fact, the real challenge today is that with so many options, standards, and adoption levels, it can often be hard to manage which option is best for a given situation.
This was the main topic of discussion when I sat down with Jon Elwell, CEO at Kno2 and Therasa Bell, Cofounder, President & CTO at Kno2. Along with learning about where they think the state of healthcare communication is today, they also share how the right technology can help to solve the problem of so many healthcare interoperability options. They talk about it from a perspective of “Send, Receive, Find” where the technology does the heavy lifting for the doctor when it comes to knowing which healthcare organization supports which standard or interoperability option. This leaves doctors and their staff to just specify what should be sent and to whom it should be sent while the technology manages all the interoperability variation that exists today.
With this approach of “Send, Receive, Find” that isn’t tied to any specific standard or organization, it makes Kno2 a good integration partner to a wide variety of healthcare organizations in what they call Kno2 Connected. They share about how that works and how they can be the “Kno2 inside” (Similar to Intel Inside) to provide interoperability options to other health IT products and solutions.
We also ask Elwell and Bell to share their thoughts on fax in healthcare and whether it deserves the bad rap it sometimes gets or not. Plus, they share their thoughts on TEFCA and whether Kno2 will connect to the coming QHIN network.
Check out our interview with Kno2 below to learn about their efforts to lead the future of healthcare communication.
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