Politico February 8, 2023
By Ben Leonard, Ruth Reader, Carmen Paun and Erin Schumaker

Doctors are suffering from data overload.

More than 7 in 10 said they have more data than they can handle, according to a new Harris Poll for consulting firm ZS.

That lament comes as patient portals become more ubiquitous and patients increasingly send data from apps and wearables to providers.

The same share of U.S. providers also said they don’t know what to do with all the facts and figures, which can come from health trackers, provider networks and electronic health records systems.

“There are things coming from so many directions,” Bill Coyle, report author and global biopharma...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Survey / Study, Technology, Trends
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