Data Warehousing

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.  

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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.

Electronic health record market, policy and funding variables have historically left behavioral health behind, but there is movement on all fronts, says Alisa Chestler, chair of the data protection, privacy and cybersecurity Team at Baker Donelson.

Lynn Carroll, COO of HSBlox, discusses enterprise-level capabilities required for critical inputs into SDOH and other core processes, and the role of AI and machine learning to target the most vulnerable individuals.

CMS should get more information from Medicare users to help address their health disparities, suggests Ann Maxwell, deputy inspector general for evaluations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.