Summary
Health care experts discussed the challenges of making patient information easily shareable across different systems at a forum. Despite investments, sharing this data effectively still faces obstacles. Leaders emphasize the importance of sharing data to improve patient care and system efficiency.
Key Facts
- Health care leaders envision a system where patient information can move easily across different platforms.
- Despite significant investments, full interoperability is still not achieved.
- Interoperability aims to connect patient records across various health institutions.
- A model created by City of Hope, called HopeLLM, helps organize patient data across research and care.
- Sharing data is crucial to addressing cost and quality issues in health care.
- Indiana University Health manages over 1,500 applications and is switching its electronic health record to a new system called Epic.
- Indiana University Health has identified and plans to retire 600 applications to streamline processes.
