“Interoperability between different electronic health record (EHR) systems is one of the most important requirements that hospitals and physicians must meet as they prepare their systems for attestation in Meaningful Use Stage 2, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for health information technology, said Friday.
Sharing his assessment of the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule, which was published Thursday, Mostashari said the goal of a national health IT system is to make sure “information follows the patient regardless of geographic, organizational, or vendor boundaries.” He also emphasized that there has to be at least one instance in which providers exchange an electronic summary of care with all the clinical data elements between different EHRs.”
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare, 27 August 2012
