HealthIT Answers October 27, 2024
Stephanie Fraser and I recently attended Civitas 2024 Annual Conference in Detroit, a conference with great focus on health data and interoperability. We spent some time with the sponsors to find out what is the emerging technologies that will help the decades long quest of interoperability.
Since 2014 the Office of the National Coordinator has been measuring engagement of data exchange in four domains, send, receive, find, and integrate. In a recent ONC Data brief, they reported that 70% of non-federal acute care hospitals engaged in all domains of interoperable exchange routinely or sometimes in 2023. Lower-resourced hospitals engaged less frequently in interoperable exchange when compared to their higher-resourced counterparts. 71% of hospitals reported routine access to necessary clinical information...