health data exchange

Hospitals are improving their interoperability and doing a better job of exchanging health data electronically, according to a review by the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). According to a new ONC report, In 2021, more than 6 in 10 hospitals engaged in key aspects of electronically sharing health information (send, receive, query) and integrating of summary of care records into EHRs, a 51 percent increase since 2017. Availability and usage of electronic health information received from outside sources at the point of care significantly increased over the last four years, reaching 62 and 71 [...]