Most hospitals are not sharing electronic patient data--and those that are primarily send and receive flat files that are difficult to integrate into clinicians' work flow processes, according to a new study published in Health Affairs.
Researchers used data from a national hospital survey done by the American Hospital Association in 2014 and 2015. They used responses to survey questions to assess hospital engagement in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's four domains of interoperability:
- Finding data
- Sending data
- Receiving data
- Integrating data into their electronic health record without manual intervention.
"We assessed progress in each of the four domains and among hospitals engaging in all four, as well as evaluating what types of hospitals are becoming newly interoperable," says study lead author A Jay Holmgren, a doctoral student in health policy and management at Harvard Business School. "Finally, we evaluated the association between each of those domains and hospital availability and use of outside patient data for delivering care."
Source: Managed Healthcare Executive (View full article)
Posted by Dan Corcoran on November 8, 2017 06:39 AM
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