ONC: Health Data Exchange Increases in HIE-Prevalent Regions
Last month, the ONC published a data brief titled, “State of Interoperability Among Major U.S. Cities,” which highlighted how fifteen of the largest U.S. cities have high rates of health IT interoperability, but there are still notable disparities among them.
The report also found that hospitals that participate in an HIE and possess the dominant health IT developer’s EHR software within a city are more likely to engage in interoperability and have information available than hospitals with neither.
Conversely, the report found that hospitals that participate in HIEs, but do not have an EHR from the dominant health IT developer within a city are less likely to engage in interoperability than hospitals with dominant health IT developer, but without HIE participation.
According to this recent EHR Intelligence article, rates of interoperability, participation in HIE, and providers having information available at point of care varies widely across U.S. cities.
For example, more than 70 percent of Cleveland, Detroit, and Miami hospitals said they could share data across the four interoperability domains. On the other hand, less than 50 percent of hospitals in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Washington D.C. can share data across the four key domains.
Ultimately, the report helps in understanding variation in interoperability across cities and, and how inequality is an important issue as it reveals readiness of U.S. cities in addressing health crises and highlights areas of need.
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