ABSTRACT
The healthcare market will continue to have significant growing pains as it continues to refine its electronic interoperable ecosystems. This chapter focuses on providers, who collect and transmit health information, and payers, who receive health information through claims data. The goal of a cyber-health provider offering should be to focus heavily on workflow and emphasize aggregation of overall patient health records. Independent cyber-health offerings transfer these health notations into a cloud-based domain. Because each diagnostic category possesses unique attributes, health notations vary, and vendors offer different cyber-health solutions for different diagnostic departments. The healthcare industry desperately needs more cooperation, commonality, and transparency. Each operational component within each business process requires a specific market standard if healthcare is to achieve true interoperability. Healthcare’s most significant vulnerability, as it migrates into an e-health environment, is ensuring that the vendor offerings actually perform as advertised.
