Recognizing Technical Challenges to Healthcare Interoperability

mHealth Intelligence November 11, 2019
Sponsored by Corepoint Health

Variances in EHR record sharing, data integration standards, and clinical and claims data are technical roadblocks to interoperability.

Interoperability has been an ongoing topic in healthcare for roughly a decade. In 2009, when the HITECH Act was introduced, providers were encouraged to shift away from paper-based charts to electronic health records (EHRs) — and so began the ongoing battle to successfully address interoperability.

As we’ve detailed in previous posts, interoperability barriers can be broken down into three categories: business disincentives, operational barriers, and technical challenges.

These days if a health organization isn’t pursuing interoperability, it often is a result of competing priorities (e.g., business disincentives). And even when an organization is using data integration tools, it can still face operational...

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