Guest Article: Is Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD) trustworthy enough to use in health record banks?

The push towards shifting the patient’s role from a passive recipient of care to an active member of the care-team looks set to gain further legislative backing. Earlier this year, the Health IT Standards Committee, along with The Joint Commission and ONC, laid out recommendations for integrating patient generated health data (PGHD) into Stage 3 Meaningful Use requirements. To see what this might mean to health IT and med tech vendors, I reached out to Zach Watson of TechnologyAdvice, who covers EHR related news, along with business intelligence, and other topics. Zach mentioned that health records banks might be an interesting future direction so I asked him to share his thoughts on PGHD, how trustworthy it might be, and what the future for PGHD and health banks might be. Here’s what he said: Greater integration of PGHD into clinical practice and research opens the door to innovative treatment standards, specifically for population health management and risk-bearing delivery models, such as accountable care organizations. Broadly, PGHD helps reduce costs by allowing providers to view a patient’s previous procedures and tests, and avoid adverse reactions through access to up to date medication information. On a more granular level, PGHD could give providers, researchers, and device manufacturers access to real-time biometric data that infers day-to-day changes in patient health and activity. This type of data could be essential in developing care plans and technologies ...
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