We want efficient, seamless healthcare with better experiences for patients and providers, but we want to focus just on services and not share data and build systems around the patient.
At a glance, an answer seems straightforward: Yes, a well-functioning health system requires patient-centered records, where data is shared both to optimize care and to learn for the future.
But how do you at once combine vast, disparate troves of health-related data for individual and collective benefit while keeping it secure and its uses traceable — or, depending on the data, untraceable?
It’s not that…
