22 May What EHR Interoperability Could Do for Healthcare

Source: MedPageToday.com

Thirty minutes. That’s about how long it took me to find the record of a patient’s kidney biopsy, completed at another hospital, in their electronic health record (EHR).

How did I find it? Short answer: I used [Ctrl] + F.

Long answer: I clicked through dozens of healthcare notes, searching through the “notes” and “diagnostics” tabs to no avail. I almost gave up, but I decided to give it one last try by once again searching “biopsy” across the whole EHR. Finally, I found the relevant hospital admission note, where “biopsy” was mentioned 100 times; the 90th result gave me my answer. I also saw a lot of the same, expensive workup for this patient, which had been redone at this current hospital for the present admission.

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