AHIMA October 5, 2020
Lack of data interoperability in healthcare, with clinical and financial data residing across different systems, has caused extensive challenges for many years. Disparate data has prevented both payers and providers from achieving a comprehensive view of the patient and slowed the shift to value-based care.
It has also severely hampered the industry’s ability to proactively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, limiting comorbidity risk identification and personalized treatment therapies.
In the first months of the pandemic, interoperability issues forced some physicians to become “medical detectives,” piecing together the right interventions without a complete view of the patient’s medical history. This problem was compounded at times by limited ability to connect with family members due to social distancing restrictions. Public health agencies...
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