Healthcare Finance News May 19, 2022
The switch to value, along with legislative and technological advances, is modernizing interoperability for payers and providers.
Interoperability in healthcare, it would seem, is at an important inflection point.
Rules around data exchange have been around for years, and regulate what patient information gets shared between payers, providers and the patients themselves. There are also standards around how that information is shared, and the forms it can take. But the transition to value-based care has caused a shift in terms of the standards that apply to the data exchange, and new rules and technology means there’s less chance for redundancy, administrative waste and roadblocks to patient access.
Jeorg Schwarz, head of healthcare interoperability strategy at cloud software company Infor, said...