EHR Intelligence March 4, 2021
Over half of acute care hospitals reported engagement in all four domains of EHR interoperability in 2019.
EHR interoperability among acute care hospitals increased from 2018 to 2019, according to the 2019 American Hospital Association IT Supplement published by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT.
Interoperability continues to be a challenge for health systems across the country. Still, the report found that over half of acute care hospitals participated in all four interoperability domains (send, receive, find, and integrate). This number has steadily increased from 26 percent in 2015, to 29 percent in 2016, to 41 percent in 2017, to 46 percent in 2018, and then to 55 percent in 2019.
Roughly 70 percent of hospital...
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