EHR Intelligence July 19, 2022
Office-based physicians said using multiple systems to enable exchange, data sharing within a network, and cross-vendor exchange are challenging health data exchange barriers.
Widespread interoperability among office-based physicians is lacking due to a number of health data exchange barriers, according to a recent ONC Data Brief.
The report used 2019 CDC National Electronic Health Record Survey data to evaluate health data exchange and interoperability between office-based physicians across the nation. This is the most recent year for which ONC has complete data.
In 2019, nearly 65 percent of office-based physicians engaged in some form of electronic health data exchange, whether that be sending, receiving, or querying health information, ONC researchers found.
Among physicians who engaged in health information exchange (HIE),...
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