athenaInsight October 11, 2018
It’s been nearly 10 years since the U.S. government committed billions of dollars toward digitizing electronic health records, yet providers are still struggling to gain a comprehensive view of their patients’ care.
Over the past decade, large health systems and their technology vendors – buoyed by government subsidies – invested enormous amounts of time and money into implementing single, standalone enterprise software systems across their owned footprints. Scale, long the answer to so many business challenges, was thought to be the key to unlocking patient data.
Organizations that followed this approach implemented a single EHR vendor so that all providers could have access to the same patient data within their health systems.
But as the delivery and consumption of healthcare...