Becker's Healthcare August 11, 2022
As health data-sharing improves, but at a slow pace, the nation’s largest EHR vendor, Epic, plays a big role in helping to create a clinically interoperable healthcare system. The company controls about a third of the U.S. hospital market share.
In the second part of a series on medical data exchange, Becker’s talked to Matt Doyle, Epic’s software development team lead for interoperability, about what the company is doing to ease the sharing of patient information among healthcare providers across health systems, specialties and geographies.
Note: His responses have been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.
Q: What will it take to get a level of EHR interoperability where if a patient winds up in the emergency department on vacation...