This guide explains how records are transacted today, the terms of participation, and where vendors fit into the interoperability journey.
It walks you through a usability framework and a concrete set of questions for evaluating any vendor that acquires, structures, or operationalizes data from medical records and other healthcare data.
How it’s organized:
Interoperability Landscape
How records move today and the core usability problem.
The Evaluation Framework
Establishing and evaluating the two data journeys that move
raw records to answers you can use.
Eight Dimensions of Data Usability
one section each, with open-ended questions to ask every vendor.
Compare and Decide
The vendor landscape, the scorecard, claims to pressure-test,
and what matters most by use case.
Reference
Glossary / Notes / Sources.
