Socioeconomic conditions are widely considered the top drivers of inequities within healthcare.

In the health IT industry, it may seem difficult to ascertain how best to help promote greater health equity, but, the answer for many of us lies in enhancing the interoperability of health information.

First, let’s be honest: Addressing America’s struggles to achieve broader health equity is a complex, decades-long undertaking that will require grappling with numerous longstanding economic, social, and political challenges. Interoperability is far from a silver bullet to solving these historic societal problems. Instead, interoperability acts as an enabler, one avenue out of perhaps thousands, towards reducing gaps in health equity.

Disclaimers aside, interoperability, which is the ability

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