The healthcare world is flush with data and every health system seems to have a portal to access some of that data. However, far too often that data sits unused and never becomes useful for patients. At the #HIMSS18 conference, Healthcare Scene talked with Mike O’Neill, Chief Executive Officer at MedicaSoft, and Randy Farmer, Chief Operating Officer at Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN) to talk about their unique approach to the personal health record and how access to this data is beneficial to patients.
Mike and Randy address the questions of whether DHIN members find access to their data useful and in which ways they find it useful. We talk about HIE sustainability and how a proper patient portal that provides value to patients is one important element to becoming sustainable. If you want to learn more about how technology can help make data useful to individual patients, watch the video interview below:
What do you think of Medicasoft and DHIN’s approach? Do you wish more healthcare organizations and HIEs should be working similar to this? Is there something holding them back? Why haven’t most organizations embraced new technology and patient access to data? Please share your thoughts in the comments or on Twitter with @HealthcareScene and @MedicaSoftLLC
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*Medicasoft is a sponsor of Healthcare Scene.
