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Introduction

With electronic health record (EHR) adoption in the U.S. nearing 100 percent among hospitals and ambulatory providers, the industry is increasingly turning its focus from adoption to optimization. While other sectors have seen technology transform the way they do business, even turning long-established business models on their head, the healthcare system has in many ways failed to achieve the transformation promised when EHR systems were first introduced. Consequently, the industry’s focus is shifting towards optimization.

One such optimization is the potential for EHR systems to serve as platforms for building a health IT ecosystem of tools and apps that will allow clinicians to practice medicine more effectively and improve patient outcomes. In other industries, the movement towards platform as...

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