The released a 43-page detailing the gaps in health IT implementation–the biggest concern being a delay in getting the various systems to be able to talk to one another.

“Health information is fundamental to all the new models of care,” said former Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), a heart surgeon and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonprofit research organization in Washington. “Data has got to flow seamlessly throughout this system.” (Frist is a member of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Foundation.)

The government initiative, passed as part of the 2009 financial stimulus package, gives doctors, hospitals and other providers funding incentives to switch to digital record systems.聽 That effort is also considered one of the key elements to overhauling the country’s health care system. Proponents say that electronic records will reduce medical errors and help cut costs by reducing duplicative tests and care. It can also provide enhanced population聽data to find out the most effective procedures.

Part of that law, known as the ,聽called for聽health care systems to be able to share patient information. But so far, the new report notes that “the level of electronic health information exchange is very low in the U.S.” The effort has been slowed, the report notes, partially because of federal聽delays in setting standards for how systems should be able to communicate with one another.

The report identified six barriers to successfully implementing the聽technology around the country and made recommendations in each of those areas. The barriers include privacy and security concerns, a lack of consumer engagement and the number of changes that聽providers are 聽juggling as a result of the health care law. 聽The聽 report suggest that doctors, hospitals and other providers might be more inclined to embrace聽the digital exchange of patient information 聽if they had a business聽incentive to do so.

The report notes that other causes of delays include a lack of enthusiasm among consumers, who often have misperceptions about how electronic records work and security concerns. Previous research, as the report highlights, shows that “health information exchange has a positive impact on both the cost and quality of care.”

“The patients aren’t the only winners when we deploy effective health IT,” 聽former Michigan Gov. John Engler said. “Digital technology can ensure that providers get promptly paid for their services.”

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