Policymakers are predicting that 2016 will be a big year for health IT.
At an event this week hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), administration officials and members of Congress outlined their plans to push ahead with regulations and legislation that seek to spur on the use and effectiveness of electronic health records.
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In particular, officials are seeking to address the lingering challenge of interoperability, where EHR systems, while already broadly adopted, are unable to share patient information with one another, undermining the vision of a system where data moves seamlessly among providers, payers and other players in the healthcare ecosystem.
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