Matthew Eisenberg, M.D.,
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (ACMIO)
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated), Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research,
Stanford University

Abstract:
Easy access to clinical information that travels with the patient wherever she seeks care was supposed to revolutionize medicine and provide dramatic cost savings to the US Health System.  Even as most health systems and provider offices have successfully adopted EHR technology and report sharing data with outside organizations (see graph), interoperability and open health information exchange for the purpose of treatment and care coordination (forget about research) still seems like a pipe dream to many providers and patients.  Let’s find out why…

ONC Data brief 36:

https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/briefs/onc_data_brief_36_interoperability.pdf