Healthcare Finance News June 23, 2021
Jeff Lagasse

The ultimate goal for healthcare should be a comprehensive digital record on an open platform.

Right now, the digital health ecosystem in healthcare is a complex tangle of often incompatible technology and sets of data.

The industry promises interoperability and payers are being mandated starting next month to meet Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standards for patients to access their clinical data, but as it stands, consumers aren’t being reached in meaningful ways and their access to their own health data is spotty, at best.

Paul Markovich, president and CEO, Blue Shield of California, used the analogy of photographs to describe the patchwork state of technology solutions in healthcare. When people take photos with their phones, he said, they can...

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