Healthcare interoperability is evolving, but it is not keeping pace with industry needs. New federal and state policies, as well as advancements in technology, that focus on data management will be needed to push interoperability forward.
At a Health Datapalooza session, former HHS head Kathleen Sebelius looked back on lessons learned in 2009 when the Affordable Care Act was moving through Congress. She cautioned the Biden administration against leaning on bipartisanship when restoring the healthcare law.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Ann Waldo, who runs a boutique law firm specializing in privacy law, health policy and data strategy for digital health companies, took part in a discussion on navigating regulatory hurdles in digital health at Health Datapalooza this week.
Cofounders Dr. Tom Delbanco and Jan Walker received the Data Liberator award at Health Datapalooza this week. The award highlights people, organizations and initiatives improving data transparency and access in healthcare.
"We need our physicians to be patient facing, not computer facing," he said in a keynote speech delivered at the Health Datapalooza conference. "We simply have to do a better job of reducing the burden on healthcare providers."
Too often the metrics that determine success are left far too vague so the buyer can extend the pilot forever without clarity about whether the destination has been reached.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
"Few pharma companies are ready to disrupt the traditional model," said Otsuka Pharmaceuticals U.S. Senior Director of Innovative Data Solutions Pravin Jadhav.
At Health Datapalooza this week, Dr. Rasu Shrestha, the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said: "In the next one, two, three, four years, we’re going to really see all of the disruption coming, and we’re seeing that, not just in the talk that we’re propagating."
In a panel at Health Datapalooza this week, Zed Kimmel, CEO and Co-founder of remote monitoring startup, Atlas5D, sought to illustrate what can happen when a large company cannot shift gears and the cost of that intransigence.
"It's great to be here before Mr. Trump puts those walls up," quipped British MP George Freeman, Minister for Life Sciences.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
"Trust needs to be based on reality not fantasy," said Marshall Allen, who covers patient safety for ProPublica.
July 4 is upon us, and with that also comes "Data Independence Day," when consumers are supposed to start asking en masse for copies of their medical records, in hopes of demonstrating to providers, IT vendors and healthcare policy-makers that there truly is wide demand for such access.
Health Data Consortium launched an obesity data challenge in the U.S. to encourage the development of visualization tools.
Reporters Neil Versel and Stephanie Baum will join Chris Seper to review insights from the recent Health Datapalooza conference in Washington DC.
Plans are coming together for "Data Independence Day," when consumers demand electronic access to their health information, but organizers want to position it more as a movement than an event tied to the July 4 holiday.