Fixing The Data Sharing Problem

The problems with electronic sharing of consumer health information continue to plague the health care field. The concept of “meaningful use” and interoperability of health care records was introduced in 2009 with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act – and we don't appear to have made much progress since then. I was just at one of my optometrist’s offices – and was informed I couldn't order glasses until they got the paper prescription from the other office. I met this week with the managers who are running a health home with paper records that . . .