CHCF July 9, 2025
Avram Goldstein

CHCF President and CEO Sandra R. Hernández explains why building a connected, efficient health system starts with transparent governance of California’s electronic data framework

During the AIDS epidemic, I served as San Francisco’s director of public health and witnessed the challenges sick patients faced when seeking care at local clinics. Physicians often spent precious time tracking down medical records that were scattered across systems, buried in paper files, or delayed by the need to share them via fax. These inefficiencies led to dangerous delays in care and worse outcomes for patients.

Decades later, despite technological advances, our health care system continues to struggle with fragmented,...

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