Consumer Transparency & VBR Changing Best Practice EHR Functionality

When you talk to many clinical professionals, they talk about their electronic health record (EHR) as something that information “goes in” but rarely comes out of—an enterprise-wide electronic file box of sorts.

But two market developments are changing the “functional requirements” of EHRs. First, there is the increasing influence of value-based reimbursement (VBR), which requires interoperability—the exchange of data with other health and human service organizations (see Moving EHR Investments From ‘Must Do’ To ‘Must Have’</a . . .