How Practice Interoperability Helps To Achieve An Integrated Health System

As healthcare shifts from fee-based care to value-based care, the major focus of healthcare organizations has been on looking at the underpinnings of an integrated health system including continuum of care, coordination of care and collaboration for care.

These terms conjure up images of patients navigating smoothly through an interconnected web of hospitals, pharmacies, clinics, health plans, surgery centers, physician practices, rehab facilities, and patient homes. At each site, practitioners — from doctors and nurses to pharmacists and nutritionists, and other health professionals — have increasing access to an EHR and mobile devices that assist them in providing the best evidence-based, high-quality, cost-effective treatments available.

While the goal of an integrated health system is clear, achieving it has proven to be elusive.

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