BrandPost: Cloud Fax Provides Interoperable Solutions for Healthcare EHRs Today

Don’t wait for 2020!

Health care providers are in a 1990’s time warp…where doctors are faxing patient records, medical staff are manually entering results into EHRs, and hospitals are handing out data on a CD-ROM.

Those words were spoken recently by Seema Verma, Administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), lamenting the awkward state of healthcare IT in the United States at an interoperability conference in the nation’s capital. 

Verma, who is arguably the most influential public health official in government today, admits that we have come a long way since 2008, when adoption of health IT was limited to 17% of doctors and 9% of hospitals. Today, 78% of doctors and 96% of hospitals use certified health IT, including electronic health records systems (EHRs) to manage at least some of their patients’ data.

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