Clinical Data Sharing Across the Enterprise at Cedars Sinai: Triumphs and Pitfalls

Jerome K. Wang, MD, FAAP, FACP, Associate Medical Director, Enterprise Information Services, Cedars-Sinai Health System, describes the strategy and implementation of clinical data sharing between the hospital clinical information system and the affiliated Cedars-Sinai Medical Group ambulatory electronic medical records (EMR). He describes the technology infrastructure used, and the results to-date, and the process used to gain “buy-in” from physicians, administration, and other stakeholders. While taking a significant step towards more “transparency” between disparate patient records, he compares this against the vision of a true patient-centric shared record.