Building Interoperable Healthcare Systems: One size doesn’t fit all

The growing use of digital technologies in healthcare allows for a more comprehensive understanding of the health of individual patients and of populations and can improve the efficiency of providers. This in turn could enable more accurate diagnoses, timely treatments, and personalized care or interventions at a population level.To achieve these positive outcomes requires a wide range of systems and tools—from electronic health records to varied management systems—to be “interoperable.” That is, these systems need to be integrated and able to share or use the same data so that they can work together seamlessly.