Description
Interoperability has generally been discussed as a binary property. Two systems can either share structured data or not. We argue that there is a continuum of interoperability. We present de-identified data from implementations of five commercial EHRs at oncology practices. We determined the standards that were followed and the consistency of structured data if no standard was used. Except billing, few implementations used standards. Vendors varied with respect to the consistency of non-standard data.
Learning Objective: After participating in this session, the learner should be better able to:
Understand the current the current state of interoperability in oncology electronic health records systems.
Authors:
Elmer Bernstam (Presenter)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Jeremy Warner, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
John Krauss, University of Michigan Medical School
Edward Ambinder, 4The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Wendy Rubinstein, CancerLinQ LLC
George Komatsoulis, CancerLinQ LLC
Robert Miller, CancerLinQ LLC
James Chen, The Ohio State University
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