Becker's Healthcare August 5, 2022
Health data interoperability has long been a goal of health IT executives and policy experts. But it’s 2022 — and the healthcare system doesn’t appear all that close to getting there.
Becker’s spoke to experts from health systems, industry and academia on what it will take to create an open exchange of healthcare information in the U.S.
Here is the first entry in the series, a Q&A with Donna Roach, CIO of University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City:
Note: Her responses have been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.
Q: What will it take to get to EHR interoperability?
A: One area of complexity is that we don’t have a unique patient identifier. This has been codified in...
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