HealthIT Answers February 23, 2024
Jim Tate

“Interoperability.” The word rolls off the tongue as if a wedding vow. It is the Promised Land on the other side of the river. It is the field of milk and honey where we long to be. It is where the lion and the lamb live together in perfect peace. Too bad we will never get there.

I guess all the striving to achieve interoperability is a good thing. It keeps us getting out of bed every day and tinkering on the ever more complex Rube Goldberg machine created to overcome all the new challenges that keep appearing. Actually, except for one fatal foundational flaw in the healthcare data ecosystem, we wouldn’t even need to deal with this hodge-podge of...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Provider, Technology
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