MobiHealth News February 2, 2023
Jessica Hagen

During a panel discussion at Digital Frontiers in Public Health, panelists discussed how the public and private sectors can work together to share data and improve public health.

As the first national coordinator for health information technology in 2004, David Brailer, current executive vice president and chief health officer at Cigna, said he and his team had four priorities: increase clinical decision making quality, advance public health, accelerate consumer self-care and self-empowerment, and advance clinical research and science at the bedside.

At Tuesday’s event, presented jointly by Ellison Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brailer said technology has improved clinical decision making substantially with EHRs, but consumer empowerment isn’t quite where it should be.

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