The report, based on interviews with more than 200 healthcare professionals, found -- surprise -- that private networks are the "closest match today" to true interoperability. About 80 percent of the private vendor health information exchanges have an Epic Systems EHR and are on the vendor's Care Everywhere network.
While 44 percent of non-Epic users said that the Verona, Wisconsin-based vendor's product is poor for interoperability, they also listed Epic as the third-easiest to connect to, after athenahealth and Cerner.
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