Top 3 Ways to Justify Interoperability Spend and Power Your Physician Alignment Strategy

For decades, interoperability has been a dirty word for hospitals and health systems. No matter how much they have worked at it, paid for it, and thrown IT resources at it, return on investment has been difficult to prove. This has been especially true when executing a community physician alignment strategy to expand care collaboration with unaffiliated physician groups to drive new referrals and revenue into the hospital.

The first step in many physician alignment programs is to formalize partnerships, acquire outside practices, or set up community physicians on the same instance of the hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) platform.