EHR Intelligence July 25, 2022
HIEs could help broaden the availability of EHR data in the All of Us dataset without requiring additional action by participants.
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to seek guidance on how best to integrate EHR data from health information networks (HINs) and health information exchanges (HIEs) into the program’s dataset.
Over 460,000 program participants have consented to share EHR data. About half (55 percent) of these participants have their EHR data in the program’s dataset.
“Healthcare in the United States is highly fragmented, so patient data is often siloed in different systems, making it difficult to access,” Chris Lunt, chief technology officer of the All of Us...