HIMSS 12 - Interoperability at Kaiser Permanente

Open Affairs Television

At HIMSS12 in Las Vegas, Open Affairs TV spoke with Phil Fasano, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest not-for-profit health plan and health care provider about some of the technology being contributed to the open-source community by KP. Convergent medical terminology released in 2010, is a dictionary of medical terms that translates between doc-speak and layperson terms for use online. The company hopes that use of this language database will enable and encourage future interoperability between medical systems, and is contributing $1 million annually to help integrate the library both nationally and internationally.