There are plenty tools and data sharing standards available to foster a more cohesive and integrated approach to healthcare interoperability. However, providers aren't really adopting these tools, experts said during a recent panel.
The OIG recently added some teeth to the anti-information blocking regulations laid out in the 21st Century Cures Act. The office finalized penalties, including fines of up to $1 million for health IT companies found blocking the electronic flow of health data. Interoperability expert Troy Bannister said that these fines are a good starting point for ensuring greater interoperability, but he isn’t too sure the OIG will be able to effectively enforce them.
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I am suggesting we invest our efforts to think beyond our current solutions and reimagine what true interoperability could look like in an ideal healthcare ecosystem. Can we make progress in reimagining how healthcare works in 2023? I believe we can. We must. We will.
More than half of technology leaders at the country’s top 50 health systems by net patient revenue said they’re investing more money into interoperability initiatives in 2023 than they did last year, according to a new report. Participating in health information exchanges is a key way that health systems strengthen their interoperability strategy.
As we shift into a modern era of healthcare, it's becoming clear that no tool can be a one-size-fits-all solution, including most EHR systems. Supporting technology, then, needs to be implemented to ensure systems can effectively talk to one another to improve the quality of services and the performance of practices.
With these APIs, data scientists, developers and analysts can free themselves from frustrating, tedious, and manual efforts to code and clean unstructured data. This is particularly valuable in healthcare where as much as 80% data is locked in unstructured text.
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Full EHR interoperability and data standardization remain the holy grail: mysterious and elusive. So hospitals are employing different strategies to access a patient's complete medical history.
New Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) regulations promote innovation, interoperability and the free flow of data. Americans have demanded more transparency in healthcare for decades, and finally, there are governing bodies in place to support it.
It’s not too late for all of us to re-think health IT and bring Hippocrates’ famous quote to life: “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”
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The current delay is specific to one part of the law that needed rework; it should not be seen as an indicator that interoperability will not happen.
The deadline for ONC's final rule on interoperability and information blocking is upon us. The time is past due for health providers, networks, and vendors to evolve their IT infrastructure — and the cloud really is the only way forward.
The combination of regulatory pressure and technological advances will help move the needle forward — and not just for the sake of better interoperability, but also to get the Covid-19 pandemic under control and improve the health and wellbeing of us all.
A fully interoperable, analytics-driven ecosystem of all patient information—such as age, preexisting conditions, care disparities, genetics, social determinants of health, past procedures, and medication history—would be invaluable for public health, medical, and scientific experts.