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Report: EHR systems not interoperable
EHR Connection, February 18, 2005
Unless steps are taken to make technology interoperable, healthcare organizations will be managing as many as 30,000 "silos of information that can't be shared" over the next 10 years, according to a Capgemini white paper.
The report emphasizes that facilities need a strategy for technology and design in place prior to selecting an EHR. Facilities already invested in an EHR may need to change their plans to interconnect the technology with future trends, according to Healthcare IT News.
"There is a high probability that any vendor chosen today will have to significantly alter their approach to internal and external integration, security and nomenclatures over the next few years," the report warns.
Capgemini advises providers to:
- Determine if a single EHR system will scale to support all users
- Ensure that electronic record systems are at least 99.999% as reliable as paper in terms of availability
- Guarantee that EHRs are quickly recoverable in the event of downtime and failures
- Make certain that their systems use interchangeable vocabularies that enable them to communicate with other systems
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