Healthcare IT News April 1, 2019
Tom Sullivan

New HIMSS Media research finds that nearly 75 percent of hospitals are beyond the basic level of interoperability, that best practices for information sharing are emerging and half are gearing up for APIs and FHIR.
Interoperability is at an intriguing intersection right now.

In one corner are the people suggesting that despite some $35 billion and 10 years of work since the HITECH Act under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act kicked off the widespread digitization of healthcare very little actual progress has been achieved in terms of making data and electronic health records interoperable in actionable formats.

In the other corner are those who counter that...

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Topics: CMS, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), ONC, Physician, Provider, Technology
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