EHR Intelligence May 10, 2021
A digitized healthcare and interoperability infrastructure was put to the test during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When a healthcare crisis hits, scientists try to figure out the what, why, and who of the crisis, and during COVID-19, that search coincided with significant disruption, according to Tom Skelton, chief executive officer of Surescripts.
“During the pandemic, we saw disruption to the roles that clinicians were playing,” Skelton said in an interview with EHRIntelligence. “We saw disruptions to the nature of the patient makeup that health systems were responsible for. We saw changes in care venues; offices were no longer able to see patients, so everything became telehealth. All of that together created a significant demand for information.”
Interoperability has always been a...
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