Healthcare Innovation April 19, 2020
Many providers and labs say they are getting data requests from too many entities, while public health officials say they are getting incomplete and lagging data
The April 15 meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC) meeting featured a heated discussion about public health data sharing, with clinical providers, public health officials and laboratory companies all expressing frustration with the current state of affairs. Many providers and labs said they were getting data requests from too many entities, while public health officials said they are often getting incomplete and lagging data.
Jim Jirjis, M.D., chief health information officer of HCA Healthcare, said his organization has 185 hospitals in more than 30...
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