MobiHealth News January 18, 2019
Internal data sharing, an exchange framework for HIEs, and support for open APIs are all HHS priorities.
The government shutdown was well underway for the entirety of JP Morgan week in San Francisco last week, but that didn’t stop HHS leaders from dropping by auxiliary events in the Bay Area.
National Coordinator Don Rucker delivered the opening address to HIMSS’s own Health 2.0 VentureConnect event, while HHS Chief Data Officer Dr. Mona Siddiqui swung by the StartUp Health Festival for a fireside chat with Digital Health Today Managing Editor Dan Kendall.
At two separate events, Rucker and Siddiqui highlighted the same government priority: Better data sharing, both internal and external.
“Part of the way that we operate,...