EHR vendors still falling short on interoperability, data integration
Healthcare IT News September 13, 2024
The need to sift through external data is still vexing clinicians, according to a new KLAS Arch Collaborative report. But refinement of data-sharing standards – and further EHR training – could improve interoperability and provider satisfaction.
In seeking the opinions of more than 500,000 clinicians on electronic health record interoperability, KLAS Arch Collaborative researchers learned that external integration was reported to be the worst part of their EHR user experiences, and “the most-requested physician fix.”
WHY IT MATTERS
Examining feedback from doctors and nurses at more than 300 healthcare organizations, the researchers looked at end user satisfaction with external integration, needed improvements to the ways clinicians receive external patient data and best practices from high-performing healthcare organizations.
In asking...