It\u2019s 2025, yet 46% of healthcare facilities still rely on paper fax machines, rather than digital fax solutions, to send information to other providers in the absence of an EHR or other advanced technologies, a recent survey of healthcare CIOs found. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s one of the main reasons data exchange between facilities can take one to five days, on average\u2014and it has detrimental consequences for patient care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Healthcare providers consistently face breakdowns in communication and care coordination with small and under-resourced facilities due to gaps in information sharing technologies, according to a survey commissioned by Consensus Cloud Solutions and conducted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) this past fall. These gaps include lack of access to an EHR or the latest interoperability technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When this happens, our survey found that<\/strong> care coordination and care quality suffers<\/strong>. Four top challenges cited by healthcare CIOs include (in rank order):<\/p>\n\n\n\n