“Interoperability – connecting the dots in a fragmented landscape of health data in this country – is emerging as the central theme for 2012. Clinicians who have been working towards Stage 1 Meaningful Use this year have noted that 3 of the criteria – electronic data exchange (core item), immunization registry data exchange (menu item), and syndromic surveillance data exchange (menu item) – assume that a secure way of connecting to places outside your EHR exists (or will soon exist). This is not currently the case.
Fortunately, for Stage 1 Meaningful Use, actually connecting with outside places is not required; you only need to attempt to connect, with the assumption that such an attempt will likely fail in most instances.”
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers, 27 September 2011
