Executive Briefings | January 27, 2020
Data Whiplash
Last week was an odd week when it came to consumer health data news. The chief executive officer (CEO) of Epic grabbed headlines with her request for hospital executives to oppose a proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to promote data sharing and prevent “data blocking.” The rule, which was released last year and could be finalized as early as next month, is intended to expand access to health information on application programming interfaces (think mobile devices, such as smartphones or wearables). It’s also intended to improve the exchange of health data (see <a . . .