interoperability-part-1Take the next step in information exchange

The biggest change happening in healthcare right now is interoperability. Here’s what it means, and why it’s important to you as a provider.

Medical practices have invested significant resources in converting paper records into electronic health records in recent years. Many have experienced the benefits to tracking costs and billing for services. But there is more that electronic health records can do for patients and practices.

All that electronically-stored information is valuable to all aspects of care. The next step for maximizing that investment and continuing to improve processes is secure, efficient healthcare information exchange. But lack of interoperability poses a problem.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) defines interoperability this way:

Interoperable [in-ter-op-er-uh-buhl]
Noun

The ability of a system to exchange electronic health information and use electronic health information from other systems without special effort on the part of the user.

Boiled down, it’s the capability for different computer systems to communicate. And right now, as you well know, many doctors and healthcare providers’ systems can’t. They are NOT interoperable.

So, many providers are still faxing information and wasting staff time on sending, receiving, and chasing paper! This inefficiency is a key driver for the move to interoperability.

We’re on the cusp of the change in how all this works. It’s happening fast. Solutions are already available from iShare Medical for secure electronic messaging, seamless integration into your EHR, and the interoperability between health care practices’ information systems.

Find out what your peers already know, interoperability is easy when you have the right tools! iShare Medical’s nationwide network spans 58,000 healthcare organizations, 1.2 million Direct addresses, and supports more than 50 HIE’s.

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