Pew Urges Agency to Improve Electronic Health Record Interoperability

Letter calls for prioritizing patient matching, data standardization

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Pew Urges Agency to Improve Electronic Health Record Interoperability

The Pew Charitable Trusts sent a letter Aug. 25 to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology asking it to consider ways to address two critical aspects of interoperability in electronic health records: patient matching and data standardization. 

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Electronic health records (EHRs) hold key information: a patient’s medical history, medications, allergies and more. But patients see multiple doctors in different locations, and current ways of matching people to their records are inadequate.

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