Healthcare Innovation January 21, 2020
Well-known physicians Robert Wachter, M.D. and Christine K. Cassel, M.D. have penned an opinion piece in the JAMA Network online publication. On January 16, they authored “Sharing Health Care Data With Digital Giants: “Overcoming Obstacles and Reaping Benefits While Protecting Patients.” Dr. Wachter is chairman of the Department of Medicine at UCSF Health in San Francisco, and is very well-known as the author of the 2015 book The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age. Dr. Cassel spent years as president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, and is now planning dean of the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.
As Drs. Wachter and Cassel write, “In November 2019, The Wall Street Journal...