Points of Contention Between Hospitals and IT Companies Developing Algorithms

In a recent blog note about"big tech" knocking on hospital doors related to commercialization of diagnostic and predictive algorithms, I ended with the following statement (see:Big Tech Is Knocking on Hospital Doors; It's All About the Data). Regarding healthcare analytics in general and diagnostic analytics in particular, the development of these fields must take place in collaboration with the IT companies that have the special expertise to analyze the data using techniques such as deep learning, big data, and neural networks.Such a collaboration between these two parties will not be easy because of what I envision as"points of contention" that I intend to discuss in upcoming blog notes.In today's note, I want to list a few specific points of contention that I think will arise in the future development of diagnostic and predictive analytics. These differences will color the relationship between hospitals that act as honest stewards of patient data and the for-profit IT companies that will bring analytics products to the market.(1)Clinical data ownership and the monetary value of algorithms derived from such dataProviders (i.e., hospitals and physicians) own/control the data in health computer systems (e.g., EHRs, LISs, RISs) (see: Who"Owns" PACS: Radiology or Central IT in Hospitals?;Who Owns EHR Data? What constitutes proper data stewardship?). There have been relatively few conversations in the past about the q...

Source: Lab Soft News - October 15, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Testing Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Information Technology Lab Industry Trends Lab Information Medical Consumerism Medical Research Pathology Informatics Surgical Pathology Source Type: blogs