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Lack of EHR, data interoperability holding back value-based care

September 17, 2018

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The lack of electronic health record interoperability and sharing of patient data continue to be major barriers to value-based care in Medicare.

That’s the consensus of healthcare stakeholders who testified late last week before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee.

Nishant Anand, MD, chief medical officer for Adventist Health System, said that about two thirds of the physicians that his organization works with across its ACOs and clinical integrated networks are independent—and, as a result, operate more than 30 different EHR platforms.

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