Prior authorization is where interoperability either works or it doesn’t. This session shows what actually happens when health IT vendors, providers, and payers test together.

Electronic prior authorization for Coverage Requirements Discovery sounds straightforward on paper. In practice, even well-built implementations surface issues that conformance testing alone won’t catch. That’s what makes multi-party testing different.

Timothy Bennett, Director of Strategic Healthcare Initiatives at Drummond, and Rakesh Mathew, President of HIKE HEALTH, walk through a recent FHIR interoperability test event and share what their teams found. They cover the issues that came up, how FHIRplace was used to strengthen quality assurance, and the decisions their organizations made in response to early findings. They also discuss what went well, and where additional focus made a measurable difference in implementation readiness.

The conversation draws on findings from Drummond’s recent FHIR Interoperability Testing Market Study, adding context on what organizations say they need as testing requirements expand.

If your organization is preparing for FHIR implementation or looking to close gaps before a mandate hits, this is a useful hour.