COVID-19 Answers Might Be Just a Click Away
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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: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Tech Andaman7 David Levesque Source Type: blogs
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