Key healthcare stakeholders have argued both sides. Where does the truth lie?
I recently had a great conversation with Dr. Farzad Mostashari, M.D., one of the leading voices in health IT. A former National Coordinator for Health IT, Mostashari subsequently founded Aledade in 2014—a Bethesda. Md.-based company focused on physician-led accountable care organizations (ACOs).
During our interview, which can be read in full here, we touched on a multitude of industry-wide issues, but there was one thing that Mostashari said that definitely deserved a deeper dive. We were talking about IT challenges that ACOs in the trenches were having, and then I asked him about other physician pain points when it comes to IT. Here is what he said:
“First, there is the real world data blocking that we’re seeing. The first example is EHR [electronic health record] vendors—in order to fully develop that picture and really know your patient, and to know who needs your help, you need to do predictive modeling with the clinical data. It’s about getting clinical data out of EHRs that the practices have paid for and spent tens of thousands of hours putting data into them. Wanting to get your own data out is way too hard, expensive and slow. It’s neither cheap, easy nor fast; you get zero out of those three, and honestly I would settle for getting two out of those three. So that needs to be fixed.” For the full article click here
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