MedCity News October 3, 2018
Dr. Oleg Bess and Gregg Church

Health information exchanges are now focused on creating nothing less than the Patient Centered Data Home accessible nationally but before doing so they must ask themselves some hard questions.

HIEs are back and in a big way. Looking beyond interoperability, HIEs are now focused on creating nothing less than the Patient-Centered Data Home, accessible nationally. The timing is, paradoxically, good and bad. There’s no question that data silos continue to stall initiatives that could save money and lives. And there’s no question that EHRs have utterly failed to create such nationally accessible patient centered data homes.

But events like the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal have propelled data privacy to the forefront of media attention and public discussion. Before contributing to the...

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