How physicians are making EHRs interoperable

Electronic health records (EHR) have consistently caused problems for physicians due to a lack of interoperability. At the 2016 AMA Annual Meeting, physicians and health IT developers explained how physicians must lead—and are leading—the way forward. As the transformation of the health care system under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) moves closer to implementation, physicians are taking initiative in making sure that EHRs work in a way that allows them to improve patient care. Kansas is connecting physicians statewide The vision that was established years ago for health care was a paperless, interoperable system in which physicians could share information to improve patient care. But, in Kansas, the state medical society and KaMMCO Health Solutions realized that physicians were not involved in the development of the solutions being offered to reach that vision.      Laura McCrary, senior vice president of KaMMCO “The medical society is building a private health information exchange (HIE) in Kansas,” said Laura McCrary, senior vice president of KaMMCO Health Solutions and executive director of the Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN). And it is working. “This is an exchange that is owned by the doctors and the hospitals,” McCrary said. “It is governed and run by the people who contribute the data into the exchange, and that’s a very important concept—doctors creat...
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