Here are eight other things to know about data interoperability at nonfederal acute care hospitals in 2023, per the May report:
1. Seventy percent of hospitals routinely or sometimes exchanged data interoperably, up from 46% in 2018.
2. The percentage of hospitals that routinely exchanged interoperable data increased to 43% from 29% in 2021, while the percentage that sometimes did fell to 27% from 33% in 2021.
3. About three-quarters of hospitals integrated the information they received within EHRs.
4. System-affiliated hospitals (53%) were more likely to routinely engage in all four areas of interoperability (send, find, receive and integrate) than independent hospitals (22%).
5. Large hospitals (53%) were more likely to routinely engage in all four interoperability domains than small hospitals (38%).
6. Urban hospitals (47%) more frequently engaged in routine interoperable data exchange than their rural counterparts (36%).
7. About 2 in 5 rural and critical access hospitals were not fully interoperable.
8. While 71% of hospitals routinely had electronic access to necessary clinical information from outside providers at the point of care, only 42% of clinicians used that information.
