In January, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) introduced its National Interoperability Roadmap. It includes a list of suggested standards that will be released in stages over the next two years to help complete national interoperability by 2017. But some experts say it’s a daunting challenge. Learn more in this article from Becker’s Hospital Review.
Some see the ONC’s Interoperability Roadmap as a daunting proposition —166 pages packed with information that will likely lead to more rules, which may make meaningful use seem like a mere warm-up.
Many physicians and hospital administrators struggle with the dead ends of an IT system that is not interoperable. Some hospitals or networks have multiple systems to serve different needs, frustrating clinicians and getting in the way of care. Others give up on communicating with other hospitals with different systems, faxing or calling over records when they need to exchange information.
