MedCity News January 27, 2021
The combination of regulatory pressure and technological advances will help move the needle forward — and not just for the sake of better interoperability, but also to get the Covid-19 pandemic under control and improve the health and wellbeing of us all.
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the surface many harsh realities around healthcare interoperability. For example, the flow of patient data to public health surveillance systems is antiquated and, even today, often requires paper and faxes. Additionally, healthcare vendors lack incentives to interoperate with other vendors’ systems, which can lead to duplicative tests, unnecessary care, and higher expenses.
The health IT community has been working to solve these realities with incremental progress. To move the U.S. healthcare industry...
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