Healthcare IT Today December 31, 2020
For quite some time, critics have rightly complained about the difficulty providers have faced exchanging data stored in Epic EHRs. That’s been the case despite Epic offering a proprietary data-sharing tool named Care Everywhere which makes some degree of patient data sharing possible.
The Epic tool hasn’t been giving providers access to entire medical records, but rather a subset including such basic data as medication lists, problem histories and allergies. While sharing such things is good, it’s devoutly wished that providers eventually develop the capability to share much richer sources of health information.
Regardless, all of this seems to matter very little in the face of a giant threat like the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest news on the Care Everywhere...