With more care being pushed to ambulatory rather than inpatient settings, clinical data must be able to follow a patient’s journey across a much broader ecosystem. What’s more, current policies—namely, the 21st Century Cures Act and the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Rule—have spurred efforts to facilitate data sharing across the healthcare industry by mandating requirements for exchanging health information and limiting information blocking. Health data exchange is a necessary component to enhance healthcare delivery, yet the capability to participate in electronic information sharing varies across the continuum of care.

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