CIO September 13, 2019
Paddy Padmanabhan

The unlocking of patient data is leading us to a future when health care will be a vastly improved experience with superior outcomes. However, there will be guard rails around consumer access to personal health records.

A slew of newly announced initiatives points to the inexorable shift of data away from walled gardens and tightly controlled environments into the world of free markets. Consider these:
  • A group of healthcare institutions and technology providers has launched an open-source initiative titled CommonHealth to let Android-powered device users gain access to medical records. The initiative will dramatically increase the number of consumers who will have access to their medical records, essentially replicating...

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), ONC, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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