Black Book March 12, 2020
TAMPA, Fla., – As nearly every U.S. hospital has an electronic health record system installed, 30 percent of surveyed medical record administrators still report struggling with exchanging patient health records with other providers, particularly physicians not on the same EHR platform. That’s only a small improvement from 41 percent experiencing problems in 2016. One in three executive respondents confirm they are holding on making new technology acquisitions until current vendors release solutions.
Eighty-eight percent of network physicians look to their core health system EHRs to enable interoperability among integrated healthcare delivery providers in order to set the stage for data-intensive initiatives such as population health, precision medicine and value-based payment models.
“In Q4 2019, 57 percent of hospital network physician...