Managed Healthcare Executive August 16, 2023
Interoperability has been an aspiration in the healthcare IT world for many years. The finalization of new rules means they finally have a chance to prove its merits.
In the early weeks of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) asked states to start submitting COVID-19 case reports electronically.
In Kentucky, Brett Oliver, M.D., was eager to make the transition. “We were spending a lot of man-hours manually reporting all this,” says Oliver, the chief medical information officer at Baptist Health, a nine-hospital health system headquartered in Louisville.
Oliver and his colleagues embarked on a project to facilitate electronic reporting. It wasn’t easy, but they were able to get the job done in about six weeks. Then...
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