Rural hospitals lagging behind larger systems in interoperability, ONC finds

Becker's Healthcare February 20, 2023
Naomi Diaz

Health system interoperability is seeing improvement, as 88 percent of organizations report that they are involved in an EHR data exchange, according to a January report from ONC.

The report analyzed the state of interoperability among hospitals, as of 2021, and identified six key trends of interoperability:

1. Since 2017, the number of hospitals engaged in integrating patient health data into EHRs has grown 40 percent.
2. Thirty-nine percent of hospitals in 2021 reported that they are participating in at least one of four national measured networks.
3. The use of...

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