Fierce Healthcare August 2, 2022
Key points:
- Interoperability is now a table-stakes expectation for new home health programs and digital health tools. And that’s good.
- Point solutions for remote care make interoperability more challenging/create too much work for health system IT teams to tie everything together. And these solutions disrupt the care-at-home promise of a holistic view of patient health.
- The cost of non-interoperable solutions, including duplicative workflows and increased administrative work, is too high.
In the delivery of healthcare, data are not inherently meaningful or actionable. Instead, we must layer on the relevant context and history and then present that information in a manner and location that enables the clinician or patient to take the right action. There is perhaps no corner...