Description
The article looks at an interoperability report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the status of efforts to develop infrastructure that could lead to nationwide interoperability of health information. Topics covered include five barriers to interoperability according to the GAO, plug-and-play interoperability tools being pushed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that already exist, and medical error as the third leading cause of death in the U.S.