LAS VEGAS—Dr. Juan Espinoza, an academic pediatrician in Los Angeles, uses a NextGen electronic health-record system when he sees patients at AltaMed, a not-for-profit chain of 43 federally qualified health centers in Southern California. But when one of his patients is treated at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, which is a Cerner Corp. customer, those records don’t easily flow between systems.
It is “one of those less desirable situations where two EHRs don’t talk to each other,” he said. “We feel a lot of the pain everyone here is talking about.”
He was speaking at last week’s annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting that drew over 40,000 health IT officials, vendors and consultants to Las Vegas. Obama administration officials kicked off the extravaganza with a pledge from 17 major health IT developers, 16 large healthcare provider organizations and 17 healthcare associations and medical societies to promote patients’ access to their own electronic health records, eschew data-blocking and use federal standards to promote interoperability—the industry buzzword for the easy flow of digital patient records from one provider to another, or between providers and patients. For the full article click here
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