Pew Urges Agency to Improve Electronic Health Record Interoperability
Letter calls for prioritizing patient matching, data standardization
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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