Pew Urges Agency to Improve Electronic Health Record Interoperability

Letter calls for prioritizing patient matching, data standardization

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.