As the digital transformation of healthcare evolves and the need to be more predictive and agile increases, data will be paramount in enabling more personalized patient experiences, new processes and new care models. For healthcare organizations to truly reap the full potential of their healthcare data, they need the ability to consolidate data from multiple functions and facilities on to a single platform. Yet, one of the challenges of digital transformation in healthcare is interoperability. Many organizations continue to collect and store patient data in multiple disparate systems, and in multiple locations, making it difficult for stakeholders to access it to measure population health outcomes or drive value-based care and payment models. “The problem is that many of these systems were implemented at different times with different standards,” Lilley said. The recent surge of M&A has triggered the merging of several different IT systems, further complicating operations for health systems. That state of affairs is borne out by a recent College of Healthcare Information Management Executives ( CHIME) study that found that a majority of respondents were working with too many tools and applications that are not interoperable. A majority (60%) of the respondents reported using between 50- and […]
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