In a recent special edition Hayes Management Consulting blog, they provide 2017 predictions from healthcare leaders across the country.
In this special edition of our Healthcare Leaders blog series, we have asked some of the country's leading experts to give us their predictions for 2017. From analytics to consumer engagement to interoperability, we get a glimpse of best guesses on what is sure to be an interesting year.
Neil W. Treister, MD, MBA, FACC, Medical Informatics Officer, Sharp Community Medical Group
It is Yogi Berra who reportedly said: "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future". Currently, for many enterprises trying to manage information and knowledge across the continuum of care, there is a relative advantage of having all inpatient and outpatient health information on a single platform. This advantage is in part due to the lack of effective interoperability across disparate information systems that might otherwise be preferred in a "best of breed" approach. It can entail huge expense and disruption for an organization to move to a single platform, and the compromises can be significant for providers currently comfortable with their existing systems. If there was true and effective interoperability that would seamlessly integrate information in a single view, the move to a single enterprise platform might be less advantageous. I do not envision this type of integration and interoperability becoming available in the next one or two years, but hope that it might be a reality sometime thereafter.