Why the Disconnect Between Care Coordination, Health IT?

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• New research published in the Annals of Family Medicine explores inconsistencies in the use of health information technology to facilitate care-coordination activities.
• Researchers found that care-coordination activities most commonly implemented by practices that participated in the survey were not the ones with the greatest degree of health IT support.
• Physicians ranked lack of time and money at the top of the list of barriers that impede their ability to coordinate patient care.