Healthcare IT Today April 6, 2020
New research from the ONC has found that a meaningful percentage of hospitals are engaged in data sharing, with a growing number making patient health information available from outside sources. Though the data goes back a couple of years, it’s still a worthwhile look at where data sharing trends are among hospitals. It will also be interesting to see how this data changes post-COVID-19.
According to the report, which looked at hospital interoperability in 2018, almost half of hospitals participated in all four domains of interoperability, e.g. sending, receiving, finding and integrating data. On average, researchers found that hospitals used roughly three different electronic methods to electronically exchange summary of care records with outside providers.
Meanwhile, the percentage of hospitals...
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