4sight Health February 1, 2023
Yes, my journalistic skepticism borders on cynicism. But come on already!
Nearly 40 percent of hospitals in the U.S. still fail to meet the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ definition of interoperability.
As hard as HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology tried to paint a rosy picture in its latest annual progress report on hospital interoperability, you can’t argue with the frustrating and disappointing facts.
Only 62 percent of hospitals met ONC’s four-part definition of interoperability in 2021. Those four parts, or domains, are the ability to electronically send, receive, find and integrate patient health information with an EHR system outside of their own organization and do that automatically “without special effort on the...