Industry Voices—Stakeholders need to tackle the thorny issues of corporate responsibility and transparency in handling patient data

Fierce Health Payers September 20, 2019
Matthew Michela, Life Image

The healthcare industry is well aware of the many barriers to interoperability, from incompatible technologies to business practices that deliberately block data. The Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) proposed rules (PDF) on improving data access focus on these essential issues.

But as interoperability improves, issues of data ownership, availability and access will inevitably come to the fore as they have in the consumer technology world. There is no question that consumer technology companies have provided innovations that we now wonder how we could ever have lived without, but society has also learned of the risks and dangers that result from a lack of clear rules and regulatory framework on data management.

Everyone in the healthcare industry—regulators, vendors, providers and...

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