mHealth Intelligence September 23, 2019
Corepoint Health

Healthcare interoperability is necessary for realizing system-wide improvements to care delivery, but it remains an impediment.

Over the last decade, the healthcare industry has undergone an intense digital makeover, with providers shifting from paper-based charts to electronic health records (EHRs). The HITECH Act in 2009 was introduced to stimulate the adoption and meaningful use of EHRs, and today nearly all hospitals, health systems, and most practices are using them.

With widespread adoption, the expectation was that EHRs would relieve documentation burdens and that patient records would be easier to share, aggregate, and analyze. But here we are today, a decade after the HITECH Act, and the healthcare system continues to struggle with interoperability, creating barriers to...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), HITECH, Insurance, Provider, Technology
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