Becker's Healthcare September 25, 2024
Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said 100% of Epic health systems can interoperate and athenahealth has a high interoperability rate, but that still leaves a lot of organizations that can’t easily share data.
In a Sept. 23 blog post, she defined interoperability as “healthcare organizations effortlessly sharing patient data with each other for the care of the patient.” She cited an ONC report that found that 30% of hospitals aren’t fully interoperable.
“One of our customer CIOs told us that their Epic hospitals could exchange data with any other Epic hospital in the country, but their Cerner hospital couldn’t exchange data with the Cerner hospital across the street,” she wrote. “My immediate response was, ‘Then how can we be...
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