Healthcare IT News October 2, 2017
Bill Siwicki

Clinicians need new skills as more patients carry their own health information into appointments.

Anupam Goel has a big prediction: More and more patients will bring their own medical data into appointments with doctors and caregivers.

Goel, chief medical information officer for Advocate Health Care, a 12-hospital health system in Illinois, is not alone in saying that such a consumer movement is percolating.

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Sanford Health said it will incorporate as many data sources as possible into its enterprise data warehouse, according to Doug Nowak, senior executive director of enterprise data and analytics. “I would more than welcome additional data from patients,” Nowak said.

Same goes for Mohammed Saeed, MD, a...

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