As healthcare has become digitized over the last five decades, a top challenge for the industry has been figuring out how to make patient data interoperable—i.e., making it possible to share patient information easily between different doctors and computer systems to improve care and reduce unnecessary spending.
The industry has made “huge progress” in the last decade, but, there are still tremendous inefficiencies when sharing information across the different facets of healthcare, making interoperability a very important topic along with underpayment to U.S. hospitals by their insurers!!
Just look at this example of savings for various size facilities here in the United States:
Larry Potter