EHR Intelligence September 5, 2019
– With new compliance requirements on the horizon, most health plans and health systems are seeking to use the initiatives to advance their interoperability strategies, a recent Deloitte survey revealed.
Proposed rules from CMS and ONC aim to facilitate widespread interoperability among patients, providers, and health systems. Healthcare organizations that fail to see beyond compliance deadlines and realize the broader value of interoperability could risk falling behind, Deloitte analysts noted.
“Today, the US health care system is a collection of disconnected components (health plans, hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, etc.). By 2040, we expect the system to be dramatically different than it is today,” the researchers said.
“Health will likely be driven by digital transformation...