MobiHealth News August 7, 2018
As more healthcare systems look to embrace big data and the benefits analytics-driven care strategies could bring, the need to build EHRs that can communicate patients’ health data without hassle is growing with each day.
But despite growing awareness and billions in expenses, the issue of inadequate interoperability remains the albatross around healthcare IT’s neck, and one that is having a substantial impact on those working the front lines of care.
“At this point, clinicians are really getting overwhelmed with the fruits of our labors in the interoperability space,” Dr. Steven Lane, clinical informatics director of privacy, information security, and interoperability at Sutter Health, said. “There’s data coming at them from multiple sources in different formats, it’s unreliable, it’s inconsistent....
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