HealthTech March 21, 2025
By embracing integration and interoperability, healthcare organizations can enable their providers to deliver more effective care, more efficiently.
Imagine going to see your doctor and having to carry paper copies of all your medical records with you. That has been the case for many patients whose healthcare organizations have not embraced the integration of workflows, such as electronic health records, and the interoperability of health information systems.
Now imagine the resulting challenges: gaps in providers’ knowledge about their patients’ medical histories and medications, needless duplication (and duplicated costs) of medical tests, and inefficient and potentially inaccurate diagnoses and treatment.
“If you go between providers, and one provider doesn’t know what the other provider did, they’re more likely to ask...