Industry Voices—During COVID-19 and beyond, a foundation for health value starts with data integrity
Fierce Healthcare June 17, 2020
The ability to manage population health and public health starts with data integrity.
Access to reliable, trustworthy data enables healthcare organizations to achieve complete patient views—bringing together all data, including social determinants of health, to more effectively treat patients and help them manage complex conditions. And, as the industry is quickly learning, access to accurate data during a public health crisis is crucial to contacting individuals who test positive for disease and containing the outbreak.
But recent surveys show providers, health plans and government agencies struggle to access the data they need to help vulnerable populations even in non-crisis scenarios:
- 30% of healthcare organizations struggle to exchange patient health records with other providers.
- 52% of hospitals do not...