Electronic health record (EHR) systems aren't communicating robustly with one another, and large numbers of medical visits and interactions between patients and health care professionals are not being captured electronically.
If action isn't taken soon to address this situation, the problem could spin out of control.
That's the word from a study reported out by the American Medical Informatics Association. Entitled "Missing clinical and behavioral health data in a large EHR system," the study compared insurance claims to clinical EHRs for a group of patients in Massachusetts, and found huge gaps in the data.
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