HIMSS July 13, 2020
At its most basic, interoperability is the ability to share and access health information data across systems to optimize healthcare delivery and management. While interoperability is a work in progress, in order to know when our efforts toward interoperability have been effective, we need to ask a few questions.
What is the measure of success for interoperability maturity and what parameters or indicators would one measure? Certain factors that can be used to measure success as it relates to interoperability include the following:
- Measurement of volume—this is the number of transactions exchanged between partners, like a primary care physician and a specialist or an external lab and a provider facility
- Measurement for the quality of the information exchanged, its...