MedCity News August 21, 2025
A combined bottom-up facility-level approach to integrated data and a top-down national-level effort for connected networks is needed to eliminate data silos and deliver frictionless care.
Despite technology advances in electronic health records (EHRs) and the establishment of interoperability requirements by regulatory bodies, siloed patient information remains an unsolved problem impacting care delivery within behavioral health settings. Data silos are found both within an organization and across organizations, leading to fragmentation of care, costly staff inefficiencies, and care gaps that interfere with outcomes.
Even the most widely used EHRs fail to deliver in behavioral health settings because they were designed for single-author documentation rather than team-centered care. They create data silos, result in duplicative data entry, and fail to...
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