AACC Urges HHS to Facilitate Clinical Data Sharing, Which Is Essential to Driving Healthcare Forward
Association for Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM (formerly AACC))A little known but major challenge facing modern medicine is a lack of interoperability—i.e., the ability to effectively share clinical data, and especially clinical test results, between different healthcare organizations. In an effort to solve this issue, AACC has released a position statement today that urges HHS to fund interoperability pilot programs and to incentivize its adoption, which would vastly improve the quality of care patients receive.