70% of hospitals participate in healthcare interoperability

While healthcare interoperability continues to grow across non-federal acute care hospitals, health information exchange gaps persist, according to an ONC data brief. The brief explores interoperability among non-federal acute care hospitals, focusing on hospitals’ frequency of participating in four domains of interoperable exchange that ONC has tracked for several years: find, send, receive and integrate. From 2018 to 2023, the share of hospitals that reported at least sometimes engaging in interoperability across all four domains increased from 46 to 70%. Additionally, from 2018 to 2023, hospitals routinely engaging in interoperable exchange increased by 54 percent. Larger, urban, system-affiliated hospitals exhibited higher engagement in routine interoperability than smaller, rural and independent hospitals. Over half (53%) of large hospitals often or routinely participated in interoperable data exchange, compared to 38% of small hospitals.