EHR Intelligence November 6, 2017
The future of interoperability and health data exchange will likely be in the hands of a few large networks.
True interoperability for improved health data exchange persists as a top healthcare industry priority among stakeholders in both the public and private sector as 2017 comes to a close. Health IT developers, health information exchanges (HIEs), and provider organizations have collaborated extensively this year to enable improvements, but regulatory burden and industry complexity continue to inhibit progress.
Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative Senior Project Director Dave Delano currently serves as the Executive Director for the New England Health Exchange Network (NEHEN) and has seen interoperability advance significantly throughout his 35 years of health data exchange experience. Still, Delano estimates the healthcare industry is...