Even as healthcare organizations struggle first to embrace and ultimately achieveinteroperability of patient data, they need to start thinking about what do with the information once they’re able to move it around securely. That means learning how to develop longitudinal coordinated care plans, according to a new report from Boston-basedChilmark Research.
“While the technology and concept are immature, Chilmark Research believes strongly that care plans are an important next stage of realizing the potential of health IT to provide a more cohesive, inclusive experience for patients who have put their wellbeing in the hands of the healthcare system,” said the report, authored by Chilmark analyst Matt Guldin.
“[E]ven as medicine has produced innovations like the Human Genome Project and minimally invasive surgery, it has not found a way to reliably share the full story of a patient’s care or coordinate healthcare professionals around a shared set of goals and assumptions for a patient. This is where care plans come in,” the report explains.
For now, data remains siloed. “They’re still focused on getting information out of hospitals,” Guldin said. For the full article click here
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