Becker's Healthcare June 23, 2021
The most valuable thing inside a hospital’s walls may not be its care services or expensive equipment; it might be the troves of patient data stored on EHRs, according to a June 5 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Hospitals are increasingly selling troves of deidentified medical data. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is using its patient data to create an artificial intelligence factory with Google. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Google inked a multiyear collaboration to build a health data analytics platform to support its operational workflows. Fourteen health systems partnered to create a firm that aggregates and sells deidentified data and gives more insight on medical conditions such as rare diseases and COVID-19.
The article’s authors...