Healthcare DIVE July 11, 2016
Jeff Byers

“While healthcare transactions generate an enormous volume of data, too much of it is disjointed and inefficiently used.”

The above quote was written by Edmund F. Haislmaier, senior research fellow, health policy studies at the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. In light of HHS’ HIMSS announcement that various healthcare stakeholders pledged to work together to ease EHR use, this seems like a rather timely quote. However, it was written 10 years ago as the beginning sentence of a June 2006 article.

The truth is true interoperability is still a ways off.
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The truth is true interoperability is still a ways off.

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, EMR / EHR, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HIM (Health Inf Mgmt), HITECH, MACRA, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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