Source: Health Data Management
Ensuring that patient data can be widely shared and used by a variety of players within the industry is a complex challenge, says Micky Tripathi, assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for health information technology. That’s because each provider organization captures documentation in ways that are specialized for them, to achieve their business processes. “They may feel (it’s) very high-integrity data, because it serves their need for documenting medical records for the purposes of clinical care. A research organization may get that data and say, ‘Oh, the quality of this data is terrible.’ Well, that data was never generated for your use.