The tech world descended upon Las Vegas this week for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, and plenty of health IT's biggest players were in attendance. While much of the discussion was on consumer-friendly health tools and novel digital interventions, there were still a handful of products and discussions between executives and entrepreneurs focused on healthcare's largest roadblocks -- namely, data management and analytics.
"Everyone loves playing in their own sandbox. How does it get to the point of sharing that data? How do we have EMRs being shared across systems today?" Pat Keran, VP of innovation and R&D at Optum Technologies, said during a roundtable discussion at CES' Digital Health Summit. "I think data sharing is first and foremost, but even for the data that we have, how do we effectively analyze that today? How do we use artificial intelligence, deep learning, those types of things that are starting to evolve right now into being a lot more effective for where we're at today?"
With more continuous sensors entering care, a rising challenge is separating the useful data from noise and extracting actionable insights. While most speakers focused on how to address these issues in the consumer space, others highlighted the gaps that health systems and insurers still have to address.
"We really need to start thinking about the caregiver. Until we get all the data integrated and all the interoperability and everything, there are people in the lives of every patient you serve, already there," Stefani Benefield, VP of health innovation at Humana, said during the same session. "Make sure that the data can somehow get to them ... you may not be able to get it into one beautiful care plan yet, and I think we would all love that, but I think we have to be able to trust and put data with people and make sure that you do it in a way that is scalable and gives them just enough information. I actually think [the insight is] there, we just need to get it to the right people." [...]
Source: Healthcare IT News (View full article)
Posted by Dan Corcoran on January 15, 2018 07:32 AM
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