AMA Connects Doctors With Health IT Ventures

Maybe I’m wrong, but the following strikes me as coming straight from the Redundancy Department of Redundancy…but let’s see. Maybe I’m just being mean. Or maybe it’s because I just couldn’t taste The Rainbow in my last package of Skittles. Anyway, recently AMA announced the launch of an online platform, the Physician Innovation Network (PIN), designed to connect physicians together with health tech firms. The PIN will give HIT companies will have a straightforward channel for collecting physician input on the products and services they’re developing. The health IT ventures will also be able to search for physicians who have the expertise they need and are willing to exchange information with them. Meanwhile, the platform will help physicians to find paid and volunteer opportunities to work with health tech companies to work with the health take ventures that suit them. In recent years, the AMA has taken several steps to bring the world of health IT and physicians closer together. Most recently, the trade group announced that it had created a data standardization organization known as the Integrated Health Model Initiative. The physician group and its partners say the new data model will include clinically-validated data elements designed to speed up the development of improved data organization, management, and analytics. Its other HIT initiatives include: Co-founding Health2047, a company designed (like PIN) to bring together physicians with establishe...
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