Top 5 Challenges to Achieving Healthcare Interoperability
EHR Intelligence August 14, 2017
Health IT developers, policymakers, and providers have several challenges to overcome before true interoperability is possible.
Improved healthcare interoperability is a top priority for providers, policymakers, and patients in 2017. The public and private sectors are working across the industry to facilitate seamless health data exchange between a multitude of health IT systems to coordinate care across various health settings nationwide.
Years of healthcare interoperability initiatives, health data exchange frameworks, and health IT standards have yielded considerable improvements in proliferating efficient information exchange.
However, several challenges still bar stakeholders from achieving true interoperability for optimal care delivery and improved patient health outcomes.
The following are five of the top remaining challenges to true interoperability:
- Developing a standardized way...