Managed Healthcare Executive March 5, 2025
Few question the benefits of adopting a universal healthcare data exchange standard but achieving that goal will prove to be difficult.
Nobody likes to think about taxes. But when asked to explain the importance of efficient data exchange, Paul L. Wilder, MBA, says electronic tax filing offers an apt analogy. Not so long ago, when a customer of a commercial tax filing business used the business’s software, the facts and figures they entered into the software were funneled into data fields on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax forms.
“And for a while, that’s probably how they sent it to the IRS,” says Wilder, the executive director of the Boston-based CommonWell Health Alliance. “…It probably was nuts. It was a printout...
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