Interoperability: Quick Route To Better Care
From the article: "Healthcare quality and efficiency could move forward 20
years in a matter of months if only there were true interoperability
of electronic health information, according to a noted critic of the health IT
industry.
In the opinion of University of Pennsylvania sociologist Ross Koppel,
interoperability would help unlock "rich, extraordinary data that would
make medicine more wonderful." Koppel offered this assessment at last
week's American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) annual conference in
Chicago, where he participated in a panel about why interoperability was
"taking so darn long," as AMIA put it." Read more
