Interoperability
While Congress has long-spurned DoD and Veterans Affairs for failing to become interoperable, the VA isn’t necessarily to blame.
Operations-led teams partner with other stakeholders to help ensure clinicians are using the EHR to its fullest potential.
Flowing outside data into existing electronic health records can be a difficult undertaking, AHIMA says, but there are ways to make it work best.
Exec says the ability to share information and integrate with population health tools will help to drive change in the health and wellbeing of the patients.
Congress has continually railed on the Veterans’ Affairs EHR for being outdated, but its users say the platform is fast, secure and gets the job done.
More healthcare providers are signing on to HIE initiatives, there are more EHR transactions and more states covered as connectivity expands for both.
While the bulk of respondents to our poll picked the reigning EHR favorite, many think a different course would be better.
To say the technology is advanced is an understatement, but hospitals should understand the reasons that it’s getting so much attention.
FHIR holds big promise for interoperability, but will need to coexist with other standards for the …
Russell Leftwich, MD, says IT professionals need to have a strategy for integrating the spec with existing standards into a hybrid.
We have more important priorities than software development, VA Secretary David Shulkin, MD, told the House Committee.