Moving Closer to True Person-Centered Interoperability
CommonWell2023-01-31T04:35:32-06:00With the bipartisan legislation known as the 21st Century Cures Bill being drafted in the U.S. House of Representatives, which includes mandates that systems be interoperable by the end of 2017 or face reimbursement penalties, the conversation continues around how we can push interoperability forward even faster. And, that’s the right conversation. Person-centered interoperability is essential to our industry’s health reform transformation because data is driving value-based arrangements for care. As information becomes readily available when and where it’s needed, organizations can facilitate care coordination, drive physician alignment, reduce administrative complexity and engage patients in their care to ultimately accomplish population health. To make the conversation meaningful and productive, I think it’s instructive to define what true interoperability is and what it is not. Interoperability is not intra-operability that shares data only [...]