Healthcare Innovation February 14, 2023
David Raths

“The cost of our current way of operating both in time and in dollars is just far too high,” said CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. “We’re spending too much time reinventing the wheel, negotiating data use agreements, building interfaces, and establishing security.

Millions of health records flow through nationwide networks every day, yet most public health agencies have no access; CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., called that a “missed opportunity’

At the Feb. 13 announcement of the first Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs), several speakers mentioned their hopes that TEFCA would have a beneficial impact on public health data sharing. Perhaps the most enthusiastic of these speakers was Rochelle Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., director the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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