Faulkner Touts " Interoperability " at Annual Epic Users Conference

I have posted a number of previous notes about the need for interoperability among the various hospital and health system EHRs (see, for example: Do Hospitals Really Want Interoperable E-Health Records?; NYT Op-Ed on EHR Interoperability Blames Vendors and Greedy Hospitals). I believe that the lack of such a solution has partly been the fault of hospital executives who did not want to make their hospital records portable and partly the fault of EHR vendors who wanted to enhance their market position and please their client base. Well, a decade has passed and Judy Faulkner, the CEO of Epic, has suggested at her annual users conference that the global"interoperability" is the wave of the future but particularly for Epic clients (see:Judy Faulkner touts interoperability at Epic users conference). Below is an excerpt from the article:Epic is working to take interoperability global, CEO Judy Faulkner told more than 10,000 attendees at the company's annual Users Group Meeting."You've eliminated the silos from within your organization," said Faulkner, speaking at Epic's headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin...."Now it's time to eliminate the silos from outside."Faulkner was referring to Epic'sOne Virtual System Worldwide initiative, which it launched early this year. The initiative enables"clinicians across all organizations using Epic" to more easily gather, share and interact with health data no matter the locatio...
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