Health information
Reasons why you should be managing your own Health Data
Holding on to your Data Is not owning It!
With growing emphasis on value-based healthcare reimbursement, we are finding ourselves more than ever challenged by the parallel escalation of corporate interest in "patient health information." Health data security and the monetary value in quality data are the drivers of such tension.
Despite all the rationing in releasing the pressure through patient engagement, whether by providing the patients access to their records or creating interoperable digital data systems, there is more to saving patients' sovereign state than simply easing accessibility issues.
Of course, Increased patient demands for more detailed medical data require a more sophisticated way to store files. That will help enhance patient confidence. But that is not even close to satisfying the sovereign patient hood. Surely it will lead to fewer medical errors, improve data access for doctors and patients, speed up medical information access during doctor visits, and make billing easier. It even enables creating a patient history after the visit streamlining the continuity of care. Nevertheless, it won't guarantee doctors, more so the patients, that sophisticated secure data management will not abuse their…
