AMA taps technology companies, providers in a new initiative to reorganize fragmented health data
Fierce Healthcare October 16, 2017
AMA is recruiting providers and IT vendors in a new initiative to reorganize health data.
The American Medical Association has launched a new initiative to reorganize fragmented health data, and it has already recruited some notable partners.
AMA announced the Integrated Health Model Initiative (IHMI) on Monday, aimed at bringing together providers and technology companies to collaborate on a common framework for organizing health data. Intermountain Healthcare, Cerner, IBM, the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians are among the early collaborators in the new initiative.
By building a common data-sharing structure, IHMI plans to improve the way health data is collected, organized and exchanged, and re-engineer health record data so it’s easily extractable. Initially, the...