Journal:Recommendations for achieving interoperable and shareable medical data in the USA
| Full article title | Recommendations for achieving interoperable and shareable medical data in the USA |
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| Journal | Communications Medicine |
| Author(s) | Szarfman, Ana; Levine, Jonathan G.; Tonning, Joseph M.; Weichold, Frank; Bloom, John C.; Soreth, Janice M.; Geanacopoulos, Mark; Callahan, Lawrence; Spotnitz, Matthew; Ryan, Qin; Pease-Fye, Meg; Brownstein, John S. ; Hammond, W. Ed; Reich, Christian; Altman, Russ B. |
| Author affiliation(s) | U.S. Food and Drug Administration, independent researcher/contractor, Your Health Concierge, Purdue University, Columbia University, Boston Children’s Hospital, Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine |
| Primary contact | Email: ana dot szarfman at fda dot hhs dot gov |
| Year published | 2022 |
| Volume and issue | 2 |
| Article # | 86 (2022) |
| DOI | 10.1038/s43856-022-00148-x |
| ISSN | 2730-664X |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Website | https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-022-00148-x |
| Download | https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-022-00148-x.pdf (PDF) |
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Abstract
Easy access to large quantities of accurate health data is required to understand medical and scientific information in real time; evaluate public health measures before, during, and after times of crisis; and prevent medical errors. Introducing a system in the United States of America that allows for efficient access to such health data and ensures auditability of data facts, while avoiding data silos, will require fundamental changes in current practices. Here, we recommend the implementation of standardized data collection and transmission systems, universal identifiers for individual patients and end users, a reference standard infrastructure to support calibration and integration of laboratory results from equivalent tests, and modernized working practices. Requiring comprehensive and binding standards, rather than incentivizing voluntary and often piecemeal efforts for data exchange, will allow us to achieve the analytical information environment that patients need.
Keywords: drug development, public health, interoperability, medical informatics
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