Clinical Informatics News May 14, 2019
Deborah Borfitz

A nonprofit public-private collaboration has developed a successful and repeatable methodology to “mass produce data sharing by figuring out what not to do,” says Tim Pletcher, DHA, executive director of Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN). The counterintuitive approach relies on multiple stakeholders agreeing to concrete, actionable types of data-sharing activity and “pay or penalty” incentives to adopt use cases as a priority in their organization.

The preferred tactic has traditionally been to “put all the data in a big pileā€¦ [and] just expect people to show up and do the right thing,” Pletcher says, which has proven not to work. MiHIN has instead built a Use Case Factory where technology is subservient to whatever value creation activity is...

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