Patients, providers, and innovators all benefit from secure, trusted, nationwide data exchange. But this trust cannot sustain itself on fragmented governance or competitive enforcement dynamics.
Timely, usable data closes care gaps and improves operations, but healthcare organizations lack access.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
A federal judge has allowed key claims in Particle Health’s antitrust lawsuit against Epic to move forward, marking the first time such allegations against the EHR giant have gotten this far. The case centers on Epic’s alleged use of its influence over the Carequality data exchange to block Particle’s access to patient records and stifle competition in the emerging payer platform market.
A combined bottom-up facility-level approach to integrated data and a top-down national-level effort for connected networks is needed to eliminate data silos and deliver frictionless care.
Reversing this trend requires connecting disparate systems to enhance interoperability and communication and achieve more efficient, cohesive workflows. Implementing the infrastructure to streamline collaboration and reduce administrative burden will improve both staff well-being and patient outcomes.
Engaging in data sharing, observational cohort research, and deeper analysis of available data to yield further insights can drive improved results for patients, making label and cohort extension faster and more robust.
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
While it might take another decade for widespread advanced digital surgery, the foundations are being laid today.
We are living in a moment when many realize that collaboration yields better, faster and more affordable advances. Open source also enables the potential for bigger profits and revenue. What’s in reach: a small amount of money paid for treatments across millions of people, rather than expensive lifesaving treatments only for the few who can afford them.
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There are plenty tools and data sharing standards available to foster a more cohesive and integrated approach to healthcare interoperability. However, providers aren't really adopting these tools, experts said during a recent panel.
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Jill DeGraff, B.well Connected Health’s senior vice president of regulatory, believes the ONC’s new HTI-1 rule is a step in the right direction that will improve data exchange for providers, health tech vendors and patients. She applauded the rule for preserving TEFCA as a voluntary framework and for establishing FHIR-based interoperability as the industry’s de facto standard.
TEFCA’s goal is to establish a universal floor for interoperability across the country by developing the infrastructure model and governing approach for users in different networks to securely share basic clinical information with each other.
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center is under federal investigation after it turned transgender patients’ medical records over to Tennessee’s attorney general. HHS launched the investigation a couple weeks after two VUMC patients filed a class-action lawsuit against the hospital for releasing their records to the attorney general.
Three senators recently introduced legislation that would ban the use of health data for advertising and marketing purposes. The proposed legislation comes amid media reports claiming that data brokers are selling social media companies patients' location data, as well as reports that hospitals and digital health startups are collecting patients’ online data and sharing it with tech giants such as Facebook and Google.