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This Just In @HIMSS16: Jitin Asnaani

Justin: So looking out over your strategy and as you advise people on interoperability and how they can achieve the results and the outcomes that they need in their care planning through CommonWell Services, what are two or three best practices that you offer out to the community? Not only your members but you try to educate others in the industry. So what two or three best practices would you share?

Jitin: You know, there are really a couple of things I always go to. If you are a vendor, right? The company is made up of so many different types of players. So if you're a vendor, you know that the strategy that's going to be driving the growth and the retention and actually all parts of whatever your strategy is needs to include an interoperability patient. There's going to be a time when it's no longer optional and that time is coming very quickly. So the advice there is get started, get dug in, start using it, start understanding it, and go forward. My advice to the provider community is actually similar in some ways. What if you're an individual? Think about it if you are a person and you suddenly had the internet available on your phone, on your computer, it was just there, would you ignore it? Would you not touch it? Would you say, "No, I don't want that there?"