Interoperability and Patient Electronic Health Record Accessibility: Opportunities to Improve Care Delivery for Dialysis Patients
Patients with kidney failure requiring dialysis often receive fragmented care, hindered by disparate primary care, specialist, hospital, and dialysis facility electronic health record (EHR) systems. In this editorial, we present an example of the siloed care that may result from interoperability limitations, examine the current state of care delivery fragmentation in dialysis, and advocate for increased interoperability in dialysis patient care.