Healthcare IT Today April 17, 2020
A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago.
Without a doubt, respondents are still interested in fostering health data sharing. Their objectives for doing so include improving patient care, streamlining revenue cycle management functions, increasing the accuracy of patient records, making sure patients have access to those records, supporting population health and value-based contracting, and automating more processes.
However, few organizations are meeting these goals, according to the respondents. “Most systems are only using the interoperability piece such as direct messaging to throw information back and forth to satisfy the...