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In a 2018 piece on why American medicine still runs on fax machines, Vox explained why the last decade of US government efforts to automate health data exchange had shown limited results. Earlier this month, new rules from ONC and CMS went into effect focused on making it easier for…

Special thanks to the following individuals for their help writing this article: Surafeal Asgedom, Michael Stebbins, David Shulkin, Niall Brennan, Tom Carton, Andrew von Eschenbach, and Charlie Rothwell. *** In the US, there are over 2,000 government health data sets at the federal, state, and local levels, including several…

Discover privacy-preserving health record linkage, its demonstrated value, and its future potential in healthcare…

Over the past several months, studies have indicated that COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted African American and Hispanic populations, as well as socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. A recent Sutter Health study showed that African Americans diagnosed with COVID-19 were 2.7 times more likely to be hospitalized compared to white patients [1]. Using…

Healthcare data is the key to COVID-19 mitigation, but patient data is fragmented across medical claims, diagnostic test, pharmacy, etc.

Author’s Note: I am a huge fan of middleware companies. Datavant is a middleware company connecting health data; my last startup, LiveRamp (now NYSE:RAMP), is the largest marketing middleware company; and I am an investor in a number of middleware companies across industries. The Visa/Plaid combination is a great example of what…

My husband and I are expecting our first child right around the new year.
After the initial excitement of learning that we were pregnant, we eagerly set out to learn everything we could to help ensure a healthy pregnancy and delivery. What we learned — or didn’t learn — surprised us.

Google Acquiring Fitbit: The Battle for the Personal Health Record starts with a Skirmish for Consumer Wearables Google’s acquisition of FitBit has resulted in many great stories recounting the ins and outs of the fitness tracker and smartphone wars, Google’s troubled attempts to get a toehold in the wearables space,…

Learn how to link traditional clinical trial data with real-world data and more efficiently recruit patients for clinical trials and measure patient outcomes.