Foundations Help Consumers Hold A Scale And A Mirror To The Health Care System stat : Health Affairs

Current information about health care quality is disconnected from what consumers want. It represents a somewhat surprising and growing trend—patients won't wait and are disrupting health care themselves. Over the years, a slew of tools have developed to help patients with their health care decisions. Instead, we see such sharing happening outside the traditional health care system, through Apple HealthKit and HUGO, mechanisms for people to carry their records in their pocket, on their phone. Paul Howard, Yevgeniy Feyman, and Amy ShefrinMay 25, 2017From flashy tech start-ups in Silicon Valley to modernized insurers in New York, everyone wants to "disrupt" health care.




As a result, regardless of how the law evolves, tremendous opportunities will remain for consumers, medical providers, health care payers, and investors to shape and improve the health care system. FHIR is a standard crafted by Health Level Seven, a health data sharing nonprofit, to provide interoperability among health systems. Second, technology has become a pervasive element across health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment and communications. Patient engagement has been a mantra for those seeking to reform health care, as it's widely accepted that patients who are engaged in their own health care have better outcomes. Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications.

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