{"id":13361,"date":"2018-10-25T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthit-gov.go-vip.net\/buzz-blog\/?p=13361"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:48:59","slug":"acute-care-hospitals-are-more-interoperable-than-ever-but-challenges-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/interoperability\/acute-care-hospitals-are-more-interoperable-than-ever-but-challenges-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"Acute Care Hospitals Are More Interoperable Than Ever but Challenges Remain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, nearly all non-federal acute care hospitals have adopted certified health IT. New data show that this momentum continues with the introduction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/certification-health-it\/\">2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria (2015 Edition)<\/a>, which includes new technical capabilities (such as application programming interfaces) that were not required as part of the prior 2014 Edition. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology\u2019s (ONC) analysis of 2017 data from the American Hospital Association\u2019s Information Technology Supplement Survey reveals that 93 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals have already upgraded to the 2015 Edition or plan to upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our analysis also shows that hospitals are electronically sharing more patient data than ever before. Most hospitals can electronically send patient summary of care records (88 percent) and receive such records from outside sources (74 percent). Also in the past year, hospitals that reported they can query or integrate this data significantly increased (Figure 1). Hospitals engaged in all four interoperability domains \u2013 electronically sending, receiving, finding, and integrating \u2013 increased 41 percent since 2016. While this growth is impressive, important work remains, as only four-in-ten hospitals reported they can find patient health information as well as send, receive, <u>and<\/u> integrate patient summary of care records from sources outside their health system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engaging in all four interoperability domains is critical to ensuring that clinicians have information they need at the point of care. In 2017, 83 percent of hospitals that could send, receive, find, <u>and<\/u> integrate outside information also reported having information electronically available at the point of care. This is at least 20 percent higher than hospitals that engage in three domains and almost seven times higher than hospitals that don\u2019t engage in any domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite non-federal acute care hospitals\u2019 progress leveraging health IT, more can be done to address interoperability barriers and inject market competition back into healthcare. In 2016, Congress passed the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Cures Act, which requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and ONC to improve the interoperability of health information. As highlighted in <a href=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/buzz-blog\/interoperability\/achieving-the-interoperability-promise-of-21st-century-cures\/\">Achieving the Interoperability Promise of 21st Century Cures<\/a>, ONC has a number of policy efforts underway to implement Title IV of the Cures Act. ONC looks forward to continuing our engagements with the health IT community on accelerating interoperability progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Figure 1: <\/strong>Percent of U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals that electronically find patient health information, and send, receive, and integrate patient summary of care records from sources outside their health system, 2014-2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1646\" height=\"815\" src=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/hospital-column-graph-2.png\" alt=\"Percent of U.S. non-federal acute care hospitals that electronically find patient health information, and send, receive, and integrate patient summary of care records from sources outside their health system, 2014-2017.\" class=\"wp-image-13426\" style=\"width:834px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/hospital-column-graph-2.png 1646w, https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/hospital-column-graph-2.png?resize=300,149 300w, https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/hospital-column-graph-2.png?resize=768,380 768w, https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/hospital-column-graph-2.png?resize=1024,507 1024w, https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/hospital-column-graph-2.png?resize=1536,761 1536w, https:\/\/healthit.gov\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/hospital-column-graph-2.png?resize=303,150 303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1646px) 100vw, 1646px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SOURCE: 2014-2017 AHA Annual Survey Information Technology Supplement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTES: *Significantly different from previous year (p&lt;0.05).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, nearly all non-federal acute care hospitals have adopted certified health IT. 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