EHR Intelligence April 2, 2020
Three health tech and economy experts said the coronavirus pandemic will force EHR vendors to work with one another and deploy the FHIR APIs.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) interoperability rule was finalized in early March, right before the massive spread of the coronavirus pandemic. However, the spread of that virus has put the importance of EHR interoperability under a microscope, health technology experts wrote in a recent post for the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.
On March 17, the Trump Administration announced the expansion of telehealth solutions in an attempt to lessen the impact of COVID-19, also loosening restrictions on health data exchange across providers.
But, the lack of interoperability between separate...
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