HealthIT.gov August 7, 2025
What’s in a number? A lot, it turns out, especially when it comes to measuring interoperability progress. For well over a decade, we have collaborated with federal and private sector partners on interoperability-related surveys to answer a big picture question: “how are we doing?” Unlike other aspects of our lives where we can measure progress based on a single metric (like weight loss), measuring interoperability progress has become more challenging over time.
Changes in technology, policy, and standards have enabled different exchange methods to become more widespread (e.g., national and regional networks, FHIR®-based APIs) and support new interoperability use cases, which can add important context toward how we perceive progress. To meet this measurement challenge, ASTP/ONC, in collaboration with our...







