MedCity News January 13, 2026
Upended by chronic diseases and community realities, healthcare needs to shift its priorities to post-acute environments.
Almost ten years ago, the 21st Century Cures Act was enacted to facilitate the free flow of health data by promoting greater interoperability and standardizing electronic health information, reducing information blocking and barriers to sharing, and emphasizing patient access to their health information. It aimed to spur modernization in how data is shared between providers, patients, and payers. From this, the industry has been building systems to capture and exchange data on acute hospital care. Still, we have left most of healthcare’s daily realities behind, and that needs to change.
Hospitals were a logical starting point, as they had the infrastructure, urgency, and...
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