Without a new set of tools that clinicians can access at the point of care, the availability of information from QHINs will increase provider burdens because they will struggle to find the information needed to evaluate a patient, take action, complete documentation, and move to the next patient.
Although the deadline for compliance with the FHIR patient access rules is fast approaching, most payers are not prepared,
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A live demo of the FHIR standard hosted by national health IT coordinator Dr. Vindell Washington and an agreement between CommonWell Health Alliance and the builders of the Carequality framework are clear signs of progress in interoperability.
"This brings us much closer to a ‘lingua franca’ for health information, so clinicians finally have complete information available about their patients.”
Despite all the talk of interoperability among policy-makers, providers and even technology vendors, today's crop of electronic health records will continue to be "fortress" applications that hinder information sharing until incentives change and, perhaps most importantly, end users demand interoperable systems, according to a new Chilmark Research report.