EHR Intelligence November 15, 2021
Interoperability rules and regulations specify how providers should send information, but receiving actionable information is equally vital to patient care
At its most basic form, interoperability is the ability to send and receive information. Previously, we touched on the importance of enabling providers to use their method of choice for exchanging patient data — ranging from existing fax and email protocols to emerging application programming interfaces (APIs) and HL7 FHIR. But the recipient’s ability to act on shared information depends on the ability of their health IT systems to ingest and present data effectively to end-users.
The 21st Century Cures Act and the rules it helped create to support “seamless and secure access, exchange, and use...