Healthcare DIVE October 4, 2017
Dive Brief:
- Hospitals have achieved some progress in interoperability, but those efforts have focused largely on finding and transmitting information and not on usability, a new analysis in Health Affairs concludes.
- Researchers looked at a cohort of hospitals from 2014 to 2015 to see how they improved on four interoperability measures: finding, sending, receiving and integrating electronic patient information. In all, 29.7% of hospitals engaged in all four areas in 2015, up slightly from 24.5% the prior year. The greatest gains were seen in sending and receiving with 8.1 and 8.4 percentage points, respectively.
- Just 18.7% of hospitals said they “often” use patient data from outside providers to inform patient care decisions, an overarching goal of public and private...
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