Oliver Wyman February 13, 2019
The healthcare industry is poised to make considerable progress this year on data interoperability, fueled in large part by the continued, rapid scaling of Apple Health’s push for open, standards-based, consumer-directed health information exchange. A few months ago, I predicted on The Oliver Wyman Health Podcast that by the end of 2019, most hospitals will connect with Apple Health. In 2018, approximately 160 of them signed up! Here’s more on what I expect to happen next in the year ahead:
1. CONSUMERS FIRST, BUT OPEN APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (APIs) FOR EVERYONE ARE COMING
This year, we will see material progress reusing API infrastructure for physicians, employers, payers, and network access, As National Coordinator Dr. Don Rucker points out, Congress, in...