October 04, 2014

Epic failure - how can we achieve EMR interoperability when we have no intraoperability?

October 04, 2014/ Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center/ Rob Schertzer

We are trying to reach a point with Electronic Medical Records where we can easily share medical information between providers at different geographic locations. The road map for "meaningful use" had targeted this for 2014-15. Yet, the most widely used hospital based EMR system in this country, EPIC, fails to even allow sharing of data within our own hospital about a given patient let alone between other hospitals and ours. How did we drift so far from the goals of having EMRs actually help us care for patients?

March 24, 2011

Why we'll never see EMR/EHR interoperability - myths about HL7?

March 24, 2011/ Rob Schertzer

Did you hear the one about the EMR vendor who said he could import all your old EMR data because both systems are running SQL as their search engine? Or, should the joke begin: two EMR vendors walk into a bar? Well, what is no joke is why we will never see interoperability and here’s why.

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I started this site in 2009 to write about Glaucoma, Health IT (EMR, EHR), Technology and to host my podcast series "Talking About Glaucoma." There is a shortcut to this blog to make it easier to find http://iguy.tv/blog.

I am a glaucoma sub-specialized Ophthalmologist and have a full time clinical practice at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic of the Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, NH. I have a longtime interest in the use of technology to help in medical care as well as in Education. In addition, I was a very early adopter and developer of Electronic Medical Record systems who has lectured internationally on the topic of making the transition to EMRs in daily practice.

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