Data Warehousing

The latest update of standards for interoperable health information exchange includes data elements that promote health equity, reduce disparities and support underserved communities.

Iain Paterson of WELL Health Technologies and Yotam Segev of Cyera discuss how cloud infrastructure provides uniform, flexible and manageable security protection and privacy controls for protected health data.  

The government is doubling down on modernising My Health Record and building a framework for national health information sharing. 

For all its potential benefits for healthcare, it's still critical to understand how patient data is being collected and used for AI models, says Sara Shanti, a partner in Sheppard Mullin's Chicago-based Corporate Practice Group.

With HTI-1 finalized, EHR vendors will have to tackle electronic case reporting while providers must look ahead and get social determinants of health into their workflows, says Don Rucker, chief strategy officer for 1upHealth.  

Some healthcare organizations use homegrown tracking technologies to avoid third-party disclosures of protected information, but all have to understand if their practices comply with applicable privacy laws, says Betsy Hodge, partner at Akerman.

Dan Draper, founder and CEO of CipherStash, explains data protection advancements leveraging heuristics and encryption-in-use technologies. He warns of a looming Y2K-like race to update software for quantum safety.  

Dr. Holly Miller, chief medical officer at MedAllies and member of the Sequoia Project’s Data Usability Taking Root initiative, is working to advance interoperability and make fragmented and incomplete data more usable for clinicians.  

Policies on data must cover all aspects, from security and privacy to data retention and disruption, according to Dr. Tamara Sunbul, medical director of Clinical Informatics at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare.