HIT Consultant June 1, 2023
Stuart Hanson, CEO of Avaneer Health

We take for granted that we can seamlessly send money to another person regardless of where they bank, or that we can easily text someone who uses a different cellular network. It’s called interoperability, where disparate systems can seamlessly connect and share data with each other and it’s almost always in real or virtually real-time.

This ease of data sharing across systems may be a reality in most areas of our lives, but it still eludes healthcare. Initiatives to improve interoperability in our industry began in the 1960s with the push for electronic data interchange for claims adjudication. Since then, there have been initiatives such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) which was signed into law in...

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