Hospital interoperability push moving from adoption to ‘routine’ use, ONC says

Fierce Healthcare May 29, 2024
Dave Muoio

The proportion of hospitals meeting the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC’s) bar for interoperability rose substantially from 2018 to 2023, though a focus on day-to-date data exchange will be necessary to fill some remaining gaps.

According to a recent data brief from ONC, 7 in 10 nonfederal acute care hospitals reported either “routinely” or “sometimes” engaging in all four measured domains of electronic health information interoperability: sending data (92%), receiving data (87%), querying data from outside their organization (84%) and integrating outside data into their records without manual entry (78%).

The 70% top line is an improvement from the 23% of 2014 and the 46% of 2018. Interoperability remained flat at 70% from 2022 to 2023,...

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