Interoperability is critical to achieving value-based care. It not only facilitates care management and coordination efforts, but also drives the collection and analysis of clinical data to derive new insights. However, an overwhelmingly vast array of enterprise health information technologies, competitive economic concerns, and the long-standing legacy of siloed healthcare have stymied efforts to build interoperability and hindered new approaches to care delivery and payment.

eHealth Initiative, along with the Central Indiana Beacon Community and Indiana HIE, examine the impact of the HITECH Act on the American healthcare environment.

A brief overview of the advantages of the HITECH Act and HIT Interoperability.

Over the past fifteen years, the United States has begun to reform its fragmented and inefficient fee-for-service healthcare system. A recent combination of policy- and market-driven forces has accelerated a shift towards a value-based system that strives to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient-centered care. This paper explores how health information technology (IT) is critical to supporting these efforts by helping organizations identify at-risk patients and avoid unnecessary care.

A follow up to our earlier fact sheet on HIT Interoperability.

During 2015 as part of eHI’s 2020 Roadmap initiative, eHealth Initiative established the Interoperability Workgroup to address challenges to interoperability. Over the last 12 months, the group has gathered 40+ use cases of successful interoperability. This webinar and accompanying report presents examples of interoperability across the country that deliver value to health care providers and consumers. Join eHealth Initiative and Cerner for a webinar on December 9 at 2:00 pm EST to hear more of these success stories and best practices for implementing interoperability in your organization.

Over the last decade, advances in technology, federal and state regulatory action, and private sector innovation have combined to drive transformative changes in the US healthcare system. As a whole, the system is slowly moving away from the long-standing fee-for-service model and toward value-based population health management. This evolution has in turn sparked new ways of thinking about care delivery and payment, which will require new levels of engagement on the part of many of the healthcare industry’s key stakeholders. In fact, stakeholders such as the pharmaceutical industry, community service organizations, retail medicine, public health, and the consumer have much to offer the healthcare system, although the extent to which they are integrated into the healthcare information ecosystem remains a critical barrier to the long-term prospects of improving patient outcomes. This paper endeavors to explore the value of interoperability among other stakeholder organizations, as well as the actions these organizations have taken to begin developing interoperability with clinical service providers.

Please download the slides that were used during this presentation and discussion.