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Declining value of the EMR walled garden? An emerging signpost from Cleveland Clinic

Tory Wolff October 4, 2013

Quick follow-up to our post about the Epic-eClinicalWorks deal: Today’s Healthcare Informatics has an interview with Martin Harrison, CIO of Cleveland Clinic, was asked what is the biggest strategic IT challenge right now. His answer? The challenge element is partly being driven by the complexity of the challenges in this value-driven world. So all the care providers belonging to this collaborative probably will not belong to the same organization. So the biggest challenge to my mind right now is the effectiveness of interoperability. We talk about it a lot, but

Change in tactics or change of heart? Speculations on the eClinicalWorks–Epic interoperability announcement

Tory Wolff October 3, 2013

Epic is famous for its intense focus on interoperability across its own systems coupled with its conservatism regarding interoperability with other EMRs. In 2012, KLAS said Epic has the “deepest data sharing of all the vendors” across its own practice and hospital EMRs (see this example in which Cleveland Clinic and neighboring system MetroHealth — both on Epic — have put interoperability in place). But when it comes to non-Epic systems, customers must work through defined “exits” to the Epic system (“we don’t let anyone write on top of our

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Declining value of the EMR walled garden? An emerging signpost from Cleveland Clinic

Change in tactics or change of heart? Speculations on the eClinicalWorks–Epic interoperability announcement

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