The cost of interoperability.

The cost of interoperability.

Voltz Donald

Health Management Technology

2017

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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.

Software; International Classification of Diseases; Death Certificates; Cause of Death; Electronic Data Interchange; Health Care Errors; Health Facility Administration; Patient Record Systems

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