On the other hand, the supply chain difficulty, combined with the shift to a remote workforce, is not without a silver lining as it has accelerated the industry’s move to the cloud. This has created an environment where organizations, hindered by a lack of resources from creating their own on-premise systems, are instead looking into other options. This shift will likely continue well into the new year, and healthcare organizations will need to navigate the challenges and opportunities associated with moving data and information from legacy systems into a cloud environment.
- Dr. Emad Rizk, president and CEO of Cotiviti

Trends and momentum in healthcare interoperability have never been more exciting because we are experiencing more broad adoption of FHIR, and the pandemic has resulted in tangible cross-organization information sharing. We’re also starting to see an acceleration of APIs that EHRs are exposing. Its part of the vision set out years ago in the 21st Century Cures Act and is starting to become possible if not fully adopted in today’s world.
I suggest keeping a close watch on the Cures 2.0 bill. We expect it will have bipartisan support and eventually become law. Cures 1.0 is focuses on how we transform healthcare, and Cures 2.0 s more reactionary specific to the pandemic. I expect a version of this bill to become law in the future, which will lead to more structural drivers for healthcare in the U.S.
- Drew Ivan, chief product and strategy officer at Lyniate

If I had to pick one word to describe all our lives over the past few years, it would of course be “unprecedented” – a term we have all overused and grown to resent throughout the course of the pandemic but one that encapsulates our experience perfectly. It is hard to predict what the year ahead will hold at a time like this, but in 2022 I think we will see more widescale adoption of advanced technologies in healthcare and an increased focus on collecting and analyzing health data. The transition to a fully remote or hybrid workforce over the past couple of years, combined with consumer preference for digital options, will accelerate provider and payers’ sense of urgency to go fully digital. Assets like artificial intelligence, machine learning, advanced analytics, automation, and other technologies will optimize care delivery, drive better consumer experiences, improve staff deployment and the management of back-office services – ultimately reducing costs and improving outcomes.

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