MedCity News May 2, 2022
Michael Schroeder

Full EHR interoperability and data standardization remain the holy grail: mysterious and elusive. So hospitals are employing different strategies to access a patient’s complete medical history.

For all the innovation in healthcare, it’s still common for patient information to be incomplete at the point of care. Frequently, multiple medical records exist and everything from disease information to full medication lists aren’t shared between providers. To understand how it could be that patient data is still largely siloed even when that information is available electronically—and especially given how data exchange is so fluid in our everyday lives—it helps to know a little about the legislation that sparked broader use of electronic health records in the first place.

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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