The healthcare IT landscape in the United States is plagued by fragmented delivery of IT solutions, creating significant obstacles to effectively integrating technology for improved patient care and operational efficiency. Key challenges include: 

• Lack of Adherence to National and State Roadmaps: Many IT initiatives fail to follow established roadmaps that should guide solution delivery, resulting in misaligned projects that do not meet the intended goals or timelines. 

• Fragmented Delivery of IT Solutions: The presence of numerous vendors and disparate systems results in a lack of cohesion, making it difficult for healthcare IT providers to implement comprehensive and unified technology solutions. 

• Fragmented Markets: The healthcare IT market is characterized by a multitude of providers and products, leading to confusion for organizations as they attempt to select suitable technologies. This fragmentation contributes to inefficiencies and redundancy in efforts. 

To advance healthcare IT initiatives effectively, it is crucial to address these challenges, as they directly impact the quality of care provided to patients and the overall efficiency of healthcare systems. A strategic, collaborative approach involving all stakeholders is necessary to create a more cohesive and responsive healthcare IT environment that aligns with the diverse needs of the sector. 

Partner with the Interoperability Institute (IOI) to transform your national healthcare roadmaps from inception to impact.

• The Interoperability Institute makes any national healthcare roadmaps a reality through the AWS powered Virtual Innovation Center.​
• IOI VIC Challenges are based on a unified community (VIC Challenge Community or VCC) with focus on both long-term healthcare business objectives and immediate business use cases​.
• VCCs foster many Challenge Events that drive solutions. Together these solutions deliver to the big picture healthcare initiatives​.

The VIC is a cloud-based, virtual environment designed to address an industry IT challenge in a consensus-driven, open development model​.

A VIC Challenge Community (VCC) is a group of sponsors, stakeholders and Challenge Participants who are committed to creating one or more solutions that join together to solve large healthcare initiatives. The VCC is orchestrated by the Interoperability Institute and powered by AWS. ​

A VIC Challenge Event (CE) brings together a specific community of sponsors, stakeholders & Challenge Participants to solve specific technology challenges. Challenge Events are hosted in an open, merit-based competition to achieve the overall healthcare initiative. ​

Who is Involved in a VIC?​

• Interoperability Institute – The non-profit VCC orchestrator and results driver​.
• Sponsors – Primary funders & stakeholders of the VCC​.
• Stakeholders – Define the problem(s) & guide the community​.
• Challenge Participants – Solution builders and owners.

Build faster and go further with IOI’s state-of-the-art VIC

• IOI’s premium tier innovation space – Including use case specific synthetic data for solution testing and the Interoperability Land sandbox testing application​.
• Partner products – Available in the IOI premium tier innovation space, these pre-built capabilities will include CDRs, integration engines, terminology services, workflow modelling tools and more, that can be productionized easily, which reduces build burden on Challenge Participants​.
• Innovation space is constantly growing – With new vendor-partners and their capabilities onboarded regularly​.
• Innovation space offers a marketplace – Designed to make solutions using vendor-partner products easily productionized​.

These 5 steps are broken down into individual sessions within the Challenge Event. In between each session, Challenge Participants will independently work on their solutions.

Immediate Need/Use Case

• Health Information Networks are looking to understand the market and competition for FHIR Viewers as they begin to consider the best solution for their technology platforms.

Participant Opportunity:

• Get directed, actionable feedback from industry experts
• Strengthen FHIR Viewer offerings by understanding customers needs
• Position your FHIR Viewer as a strong contender in the marketplace.
• Utilize feedback as a marketable manner through website, social media and collateral.
• Leverage IOI’s convening capabilities and AWS’ working

IOI Ask:

• Register for the event
• Join us for the kick-off event the week of May 13, 2024
• Join Round One of demonstrations the week of May 20, 2024.
• Join the Working Backwards session in June
• Join the Round Two Demonstrations in August
• Join the VIC Challenge Community to continute to further FHIR Viewers as an offering

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