MedCity News April 29, 2024
Interoperability is moving ahead, but major health systems and hospitals in large population centers must ensure they don’t leave their smaller and more rural counterparts behind.
The future of interoperability is already here. It just hasn’t been evenly distributed.
Certainly, the healthcare interoperability movement has made strides in recent years, but there is still significant progress that needs to be made. For example, in 2021, 62% of hospitals engaged in all four major domains of interoperability (send, receive, integrate, and find), up from 41% in 2017, according to a report from The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).
However, a breakdown of those numbers reveals a divide between the “haves” (medium-to-large, urban and suburban hospitals)...
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