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Stanford White Paper: The Future of Electronic Health Records
Ten years ago, one doctor in 10 kept digital records on their patients. The other 90 percent made notes on paper and stored them in manila folders on shelves and in filing cabinets. Paper records had some obvious disadvantages. They took up space, they were difficult to share with other [...]
CareJourney President sits down for an Interview with Humana CEO
Aneesh Chopra, President of CareJourney, recently did a video interview with Bruce Broussard, CEO of Humana. They spoke on the importance of fostering innovation, the history behind the digitization of healthcare data and what is on the horizon for healthcare as it relates to interoperability, new technologies and how companies [...]
Is Someone Stealing Your Health Data?
In 2017, Facebook held a widely reported health summit for pharmaceutical companies to propose ways that user “likes” and demographic information could be enlisted to better target drug ads. After Facebook was outed in the recent scandal, CNBC reported that the company was looking into selling user information to hospitals and medical institutions, [...]
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and others want to fix one of the most broken things about health care
There are many broken things about the U.S. health care system. But one of the biggest and most overlooked problems is that patients still find it too hard to share their medical information between doctors, especially those working in different hospitals. It’s a huge problem for many reasons: It makes [...]
Apple’s Pact with 13 Health Care Systems Might Actually Disrupt the Industry
An announcement on January 24 didn’t get the large amount of attention it deserved: Apple and 13 prominent health systems, including prestigious centers like Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania, disclosed an agreement that would allow Apple to download onto its various devices the electronic health data of those [...]
Here’s what needs to happen for digital health care information-sharing to actually become a successful reality
A vision delivered needs relentless focus on execution Jared Kushner and Seema Verma’s vision of a patient-centered health care information-sharing ecosystem through the MyHealthEData initiative drew near-universal praise, including my immediate take following last Tuesday’s announcement. In the days that followed the launch, a multi-stakeholder coalition, of which I am a part, pledged to enable consumers to [...]
CareJourney Open Data Report
In late August, CMS released the 2017 performance year results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The big news was that the program generated net savings for CMS for the first time, as ACOs saved the federal government $313.7 million. Most high-level trends persisted from previous years: ACOs with [...]
Apple’s Move to Bring Health Care Record to the iPhone Is Great News
IN LATE JANUARY, Apple previewed an iOS feature that would allow consumers to access their electronic health records on their phones. Skeptics said the move was a decade too late given a similar (and failed) effort from Google. Optimists argued that Apple was capable of translating health data into something [...]
Startup Health Festival Fireside Chat: The Government Mindset to The Entrepreneur Mindset
Aneesh's recent panel at the Startup Health Festival
Future of Medicine Speech with Dr. Winn
Aneesh recently spoke with the Future of Medicine Conference hosted by Centura with Dr.Winn of the University of Illinois Health System
A prescription for healing the healthcare industry
The year is 1900. Life expectancy is 47 years. Almost all hospitals in the U.S. are nonprofit institutions founded by religious organizations. More people die in war due to infection than in battle. Fast-forward to today. Healthcare in the U.S. has ballooned into a massive industry worth $3 trillion. The [...]