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Interoperability vs. integration: what clinicians need

The health care industry has spent years working toward interoperability. What we've accomplished to date represents significant progress, with connected devices, electronic health records, advanced monitoring systems, applications, and data repositories that once operated in isolation now increasingly working together.…

The health care industry has spent years working toward interoperability. What we’ve accomplished to date represents significant progress, with connected devices, electronic health records, advanced monitoring systems, applications, and data repositories that once operated in isolation now increasingly working together.

For clinicians, however, those connections only matter at the bedside if they change what a care provider can see, understand, or act on. Simply moving data from one system to another …

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Interoperability vs. integration: what clinicians need