We Have Granular Data on Patients and Doctors to Move the Needle on Outcomes Today

ePharma Summit 2016 is already two weeks in the rearview mirror but the takeaways have staying power.I keep returning to the fact that the future isn’t in front of us, but it is now. The snail’s pace of progress in the physical realm is a reflection of the snail’s pace of progress in the healthcare mindset. But that is changing. As Millennials (read: digital natives) take over the reins, this horse is going to start galloping. Knowledge and technology are advancing exponentially. What were plans and dreams just a few years ago are now our reality. The charge is for regulatory and traditional processes to keep pace or get out of the way.As Matthew Zachary, founder of The Stupid Cancer Show and Millennial cancer patient social network platform Instapeer, told the ePharma Summitattendees, ”We have data now that you don’t have, and we know what it means, and we want to work with you. . .Our patients, we know where they are. They want their data known.”With just that sentence, Zachary may have dismantled HIPAA. As I discussed in my Health System Ed blog within the last year with a nudge from a former colleague and health policy advisor in the Reagan administration, our newfound social comfort with having every aspect of our personal lives online may have the effect of challenging the boundaries of personal privacy. Certainly not everyone shares that comfort, but the generation that wrote HIPAA begat the selfie generation. Matthew Zachary’s comment is a reflection of ...
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