COVID-19 Answers Might Be Just a Click Away

SPONSORED POST By DAVID LEVESQUE As more people die every day from COVID-19 (we were edging towards 20,000 casualties in the U.S. at the time this article was written), the answers to what a cure could look like are waiting to be discovered in EMRs and patients’ homes. We have the technology and business models to turn this data into insights, but we are stalling…  What seems to be the problem? First this. It’s time to end the illusion that patients do not pay for healthcare. Whether it is out of pocket, paycheck, or taxes, U.S. citizens pay for 100% of the healthcare spend. It is indeed their healthcare. It follows logically from this that patients should be allowed and empowered to lower the cost and increase the quality of the care they receive. Receiving access to their own medical records is one important way to accomplish this. In 2017, when I asked the World Economic Forum if there is a study on the cost of lack of interoperability in healthcare they said – “That’s a good idea.” That was a year after Vice President Biden sponsored the 21st Century Cures Act to create more interoperability and patient data access and ownership in the United States. Finally, in January 2020, ONC published their guidance on how to implement and enforce the law. As the Trump administration uses executive power to – rightfully – force data sharing between different agencies and institutions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: COVID-19 Health Tech Andaman7 David Levesque Source Type: blogs