EHR Intelligence March 30, 2023
Despite high adoption rates of health IT, there is still a clear disconnect in how health data is shared between organizations, making clear the need for a data integration platform.
Today’s healthcare system touts high levels of EHR adoption among hospitals and physician practices thanks to billions of dollars in incentives made available by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). As of 2021, 96 percent of acute care hospitals and 78 percent of office-based physicians have adopted certified EHR technology, a marked improvement over 2011 when those figures sat at 28 percent and 34 percent, respectively.
Such high adoption statistics empowered a former CMS administrator in 2018 to call for the end of fax-based information sharing in healthcare...