When it comes to EHR (electronic health records) improvement projects cited among healthcare organiation executives, the plan to improve connectivity with other systems topped plans for 2017. According to Healthcare IT News’ recent survey of 96 respondents, sixty percent of those polled are planning or are already in the midst of an interoperability initiative. Most of these projects (65%) involve connecting to external databases or health information exchanges (HIE).
These executives recognize that there can be challenges to interoperability, listing the lack of industry standards, EHR vendors themselves, the “culture of hoarding,” and financial concerns.
“The Year Ahead in Health IT” survey also identified emerging technologies many organizations had plans to invest in this year. This included prescriptive analytics, artificial intelligence, genomic tools and machine learning, cognitive computing, and blockchain.
Where is your organization on the path to interoperability and leveraging technology to improve quality of care, save costs and become more efficient? A seasoned healthcare technology consulting firm can be your guide to strategy, design and implementation while helping you navigate the tricky areas of vendor management and balancing internal change management.
Source: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/slideshow/survey-results-look-ahead-healthcare-it-2017?page=1
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