Consumer Data Liquidity – The Road So Far, The Road Ahead – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/25 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Greg Meyer (@Greg_Meyer93) on the topic of “Consumer Data Liquidity – The Road So Far, The Road Ahead.” As my summer tour of interoperability forums, lectures, and webinars winds down, patient engagement/data liquidity is arguably the hottest talk in town.  This leads me to a time of reflection looking back to my own personal experience over the last 10-15 years (yes, I’m still a fairly young guy) starting with early attempts to access my own family’s records, moving on to witnessing the consumer revolution of Dave deBronkart and Regina Holiday, and finally tracking the progression of HealthIT and public health legislation.  We’ve come a long way from the ubiquity of paper and binders and Xerox (oh my) to CDs and PDFs to most recently CDAs, Direct, and FHIR with the latter paving the way for a new breed of apps and tools. With the lightning speed of change in technology and disruption vis-à-vis consumer devices, one would expect a dramatic shift in the consumer experience over the past 10 years with nirvana in the not too distant future.  Contrary to intuitive thinking, we haven’t come as far as we would like to think.  Even with legislation and a progression of technology such as C-CDA, OpenNotes, Direct, BlueButton, FHIR, and the promise of apps to bring it all together, pragmatically a ...
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