Healthcare IT News September 18, 2017
Advisory Board Senior Vice President Rob Barras discusses the need for providers to start locally to spark interoperability while recognizing there’s no one-size-fits-all approach.
Interoperability is one of the most difficult challenges with electronic health record optimization: The ability to share clinical data across health systems and respective EHRs. Sometimes it takes a personal experience to drive home the meaning of interoperability, not only to the healthcare professionals who regularly interface with the EHR, but the patients.
When EHR interoperability hits home
For those that read my last post, you know that I lost my 40-year-old brother to a heart attack in 2015. I had a physical about two months after my brother died, but due to my family history...