AHIMA March 17, 2021
Michael Gleeson

Our industry has made significant recent progress towards adopting common data and interoperability standards, but we still have a long way to go before we can seamlessly share data to improve the health of populations and reduce the cost of healthcare.

Interoperability standards for data exchange are helping improve care for individual patients in use cases that range from better transition of care management to emergency department visit follow up by primary care. However, our collective thinking about interoperability is still immature when it comes to the population-level use cases needed to drive outcomes for value-based care, especially those related to reducing the cost of care. Interoperability needs to be about populations, and not just individual patients.

Current approaches to...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, Healthcare System, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Population Health Mgmt, Provider, Technology
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