DIGITAL HEALTH
The importance of interoperability
in hospitals
Mike Lipps , CEO of Intelerad , tells us how between systems improves hospital operations
WRITTEN BY : LEILA HAWKINS
Intelerad Medical Systems provides medical imaging solutions to healthcare providers around the world , within hospitals , to radiology groups and cardiovascular care settings .
A key challenge for these facilities is interoperability . Here Mike Lipps , Chief Executive Officer and President of Intelerad , explains how their enterprise solutions can resolve this .
Lipps sees three main challenges currently affecting healthcare organisations . As a result of the pandemic a major issue is loss of revenue , with US healthcare providers losing $ 323 billion in 2020 .
In addition hospitals and health systems in the US are shifting to a value-based care model , where they are paid depending on the quality of the care that they provide , and the speed with which they provide it . Lipps says this is forcing them to think differently about how they operate and how they use technology to support the people who ultimately keep the hospital running .
In specialist areas such as radiology there is a shortage of practitioners , and
64 December 2021