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EHR Integration Among Top Health IT Infrastructure Priorities

Integrating advancing health IT tools with EHRs can be a challenge, but it helps organizations take full advantage of real-time communication for better patient experience.

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By Elizabeth O'Dowd

- The foundational technologies that make up health IT infrastructure are critical to supporting telehealth, patient engagement, population health management, and value-based care.

According CHIME’s Healthcare’s Most Wired: National Trends 2018 report, the ever growing need to improve healthcare depends on foundational infrastructure technology including integration and interoperability.

“Before provider organizations can achieve outcomes with their strategies for population health management, value-based care, patient engagement, and telehealth, they must first ensure that foundational pieces such as integration, interoperability, security, and disaster recovery are in place,” said the report.