A recent report from Black Book Market Research shows 41 percent of hospital administrators are still finding challenges exchanging electronic health record information with other providers. A disheartening 25 percent say they can’t access any patient data from external sources.
As health systems lean on their EHRs to help them tackle population health management for value-based reimbursement, clearly vendors whose products can easily connect with other platforms are preferable. Black Book shows that its top-ranked vendors make use of HL7’s FHIR specification to drive interoperability.
