The interoperability gap is costing health systems time and trust
A patient assumes every physician has their full longitudinal picture. Too often, that picture is scattered across tabs, reports, device systems and outside records, and the insight stays out of reach.
It gets worse below the surface. One health system found five or six different definitions of ""length of stay"" in active use at the same time. Consolidating onto a single EHR helps, but even then, the diagnostic devices, ambulatory monitoring services and analytics platforms driving cardiovascular care often still live in silos. Integration connects systems; it doesn't make them work as one.
In a recent Becker's Healthcare advisory call, CMIOs, CMOs and senior digital health leaders detailed how they're closing that gap, from data governance and consistent definitions to rewiring the highest-friction transitions of care.
This report captures what's working and what isn't as leaders move from basic integration to genuine interoperability.
Learnings include:
It gets worse below the surface. One health system found five or six different definitions of ""length of stay"" in active use at the same time. Consolidating onto a single EHR helps, but even then, the diagnostic devices, ambulatory monitoring services and analytics platforms driving cardiovascular care often still live in silos. Integration connects systems; it doesn't make them work as one.
In a recent Becker's Healthcare advisory call, CMIOs, CMOs and senior digital health leaders detailed how they're closing that gap, from data governance and consistent definitions to rewiring the highest-friction transitions of care.
This report captures what's working and what isn't as leaders move from basic integration to genuine interoperability.
Learnings include:
- Why usability, not access, is now the core data challenge
- How to keep structured data definitions consistent across care teams
- Strategies for cleaner ED-to-specialist and hospital-to-home transitions
- Why cardiovascular service lines are the clearest proving ground
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