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Healthcare organizations (insurance and delivery) see data as a competitive advantage. I don't foresee this happening any time soon. In addition to large datas

Healthcare organizations (insurance and delivery) see data as a competitive advantage. I don't foresee this happening any time soon. In addition to large datasets, this protectiveness extends to data specific to an individual patient. Consider this scenario: You need to see a specialist, and have the choice of providers; specialist A is within the same system as your PCP, while specialist B is with a smaller, independent practice. Specialist A therefore has access to the same EMR as your PCP, while specialist B does not. This has a direct impact on your experience as a patient: at specialist A, it feels like their office "knows" you; your visit to specialist B, however, would include filling out a bunch of forms (demographic info, insurance, medical history...) that you've filled out countless times before. Of course, it's in the patient's interest for their data to flow freely between providers, no matter which healthcare system they're on. And many healthcare systems recognize this, and strive to share data. But they are often going against their own economic interests to do so.

aurailious 8y ago
> Healthcare organizations (insurance and delivery) see data as a competitive advantage. Its not just seeing it as such, it is. Data is everything these days.
- kprybol 8y ago
  Healthcare data can't be shared the way the browser histories, cell phone location data, etc. can. It's a completely different set of a rules that people have to play by (HIPPA for example). I build machine learning systems using healthcare claims and EHR data and without the direct cooperation of several large insurance companies (and access to their data) we'd be dead in the water. Even with access to their data there are incredibly strict limits to what we can and can't do with it. You can't just go out and collect healthcare data the way you can many other types of data.

aurailious 8y ago

> Healthcare organizations (insurance and delivery) see data as a competitive advantage. Its not just seeing it as such, it is. Data is everything these days.

kprybol 8y ago
Healthcare data can't be shared the way the browser histories, cell phone location data, etc. can. It's a completely different set of a rules that people have to play by (HIPPA for example). I build machine learning systems using healthcare claims and EHR data and without the direct cooperation of several large insurance companies (and access to their data) we'd be dead in the water. Even with access to their data there are incredibly strict limits to what we can and can't do with it. You can't just go out and collect healthcare data the way you can many other types of data.