HealthLeaders Media January 27, 2023
The number of hospitals improving their EHR platforms to enable data sharing, especially from outside sources, has more than doubled since 2017, according to a report from the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– The ONC’s latest data brief details advances and challenges in healthcare interoperability from 2017 to 2021.
– The brief notes that more than six in 10 hospitals now engage in key aspects of electronically sharing health information and integrating summary of care records in the EHR, a 51% increase since 2017.
– Overall, the percent of hospitals with information available at the point of care jumped 22% from 2017 to 2021, and more than half of all rural and...
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