How Can Providers, HIEs Partner to Achieve Interoperability?
EHR Intelligence December 3, 2014
Choosing a partner for data interoperability and health information exchange depends on an organization’s long-term objectives.
Interoperability is a popular topic among healthcare stakeholders, but with all the different organizations offering to help providers achieve efficient, effective, and viable health information exchange (HIE), choosing a partner can be a daunting task. Between private, local HIEs and state-level exchanges, third-party commercial offerings and EHR vendors in the cloud, providers have any number of options to help them along the road towards freely flowing patient data that supports safe and coordinated transitions of care.
“I don’t think there’s ever going to be a singular nationwide system that does everything for everybody,” said Jeff Miller, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Clinical...