The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Cisco are joining forces in a new scheme to develop an interoperability focused platform to allow health systems, hospitals, providers, payers and app-makers to quickly access relevant patient information, and help stop the proliferation of fragmented information in the healthcare sector. The initial pilot of the platform will take place at UCSF Medical Center and from there, expand throughout the UC systems and nationwide. “Healthcare is one of the most complex industries out there,” said Dr. David A. Kessler, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer for Cisco.
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Cisco are joining forces in a new scheme to develop an interoperability focused platform to allow health systems, hospitals, providers, payers and app-makers to quickly access relevant patient information, and help stop the proliferation of fragmented information in the healthcare sector. The initial pilot of the platform will take place at UCSF Medical Center and from there, expand throughout the UC systems and nationwide. Cisco is to be part of a collaborative center working on the project, and provide both staff, and extensions to its business analytics platform to make it compatible with healthcare.