Health Information Technology

Health care providers are increasingly using cloud-based electronic health record systems. In order for health care providers to realize the benefits of moving their current systems to the cloud, they must address the concerns of cloud-based system reliability and the legal liability for compliance with statutes and regulations addressing electronic protected health information residing in the cloud. In order to facilitate health information exchange between electronic health record systems, semantic interoperability should be focused on. Interoperability standards such as CEN/ISO EN13606 and HL7 are designed to enable semantic interoperability in electronic health record communication. However, adoption of these standards is low. A multi-tenant model SaaS EHR system can enable efficient updates and interoperability standards updates to these systems. Furthermore, simplifying the deployment of interoperability standards facilitates health information exchange.