Various pilots are currently running to test the efficacy and accuracy of Electronic Medical Record transport between different Providers in Health Information Exchange environments. In the past obvious barriers to interoperability of EMR systems arose due to the proprietary nature of each system.
However with significant investment and prospect of incentives looming for achievement of Meaningful Use criteria, EMR vendors are achieving a degree of interoperability between their systems in several market tests, notably the Hudson Valley pilot and CurrentCare in Rhode Island.
The next barrier to HIE implementation was the method of EMR transport …Continue Reading »