• Despite progress in digitization, health data far too often remains siloed across systems and sectors. • For providers, data siloes can threaten patient safety and hinder care coordination by forcing clinicians to make decisions without complete, timely information from other settings of care. • For patients, fragmented data increases the risk of disjointed care, avoidable errors, unnecessary tests, inappropriate procedures, and delays in receiving appropriate treatment. • Persistent gaps exist in healthcare interoperability. • For example, while a majority of physicians surveyed in aJAMA Open Networkstudy indicated being at least somewhat satisfied with access to outside information, just 23% stated that it was very easy to use outside information. • Even fewer (8%), said that it was very easy to use information from different electronic health record (EHR) systems.
Article Summaries:
- Despite progress in digitization, health data far too often remains siloed across systems and sectors. For providers, data siloes can threaten patient safety and hinder care coordination by forcing clinicians to make decisions without complete, timely information from other settings of care. For patients, fragmented data increases the risk of disjointed care, avoidable errors, unnecessary tests, inappropriate procedures, and delays in receiving appropriate treatment. Persistent gaps exist in healthcare interoperability. For example, while a majority of physicians surveyed in a JAMA Open Networ
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