4sight Health June 5, 2024
If you think the lack of interoperability between healthcare providers isn’t a thing, check this out. A person I know switched primary care physicians (PCP). She spent a day picking up her mammography test results, clinical notes and images on a CD from her former PCP and driving them over to her new PCP before she could schedule her first appointment. This was in May. May of 2024.
Her experience with the lack of interoperability between healthcare providers is reflected in the latest report on hospital interoperability from HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, or ONC.
The 13-page report — based on hospital survey data from the American Hospital Association and released late last month —...