Clinical Innovation July 13, 2015
The American Hospital Association’s Interoperability Advisory Group (IAG) offers priorities to both improve patient care and engage patients in supporting new models of care in its 2015 report “Achieving Interoperability that Supports Care Transformation.”
The IAG lists the following “must-dos” for players in the public and private sectors in order
According to the report, to leverage health information exchange to improve patient outcomes, providers must do the following:
- Set an expectation that vendors adhere to standards.
• Identify the highest priority information-sharing activities or use cases they want their health IT systems to support.
• Contribute their requirements for testing as the end-users of health IT systems.
• Invest in standardizing care processes and use of systems.
• Actively...