In the News: We Shouldn’t Let Nostalgia Cloud the Real Impact of Interoperability in Healthcare

A recent study shared that clinicians feel interoperability is “substantial but incomplete” and that there’s only “moderate ease of using that information.” But is that reality, or is nostalgia obscuring all the ways technology has made care better, safer and more accessible?

In this article for Medical Economics, Surescripts Chief Data and Analytics Officer Lynne Nowak, M.D., writes about the advances of interoperability and the impact of nostalgia.

She shares how:

• Technology has replaced many previously manual and inefficient parts of a physician’s job.
• Interoperability at scale has simplified the medication review process and increased patient safety.
• Parts of the past are worth keeping, like the personal relationships between clinicians and patients.

Read the article for more of Nowak’s insights.