A physician and health care investment executive, Dr. Mitchell Blutt leads Consonance Capital, which includes both a health care-related hedge fund and a private equity fund. A thought leader in his field, Dr. Mitchell Blutt coauthored the recent Washington Post op-ed piece “We need a national dashboard of digital coronavirus data.”
The question posed is why, given that the White House has a Situation Room for drawing together real-time military data and making critical decisions, there is not a similar data driven system when it comes to corralling information on the COVID-19 pandemic? A properly realized dashboard would combine predictive analytics with large volumes of data on everything from transmission trends to available hospital beds that can be transitioned to ICU use if necessary.
This approach could be relatively easily implemented, as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 already has information flow requirements in place. The major adjustment would involve requiring that electronic health record (EHR) companies employ open-standard interfaces that enable public health authorities to extract data relevant to the pandemic. Such an approach is already set up to allow patients access to their personal health information, within the parameters of the 21st Century Cures Act.
The article can be accessed at https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/20/coronavirus-national-digital-dashboard/,
The question posed is why, given that the White House has a Situation Room for drawing together real-time military data and making critical decisions, there is not a similar data driven system when it comes to corralling information on the COVID-19 pandemic? A properly realized dashboard would combine predictive analytics with large volumes of data on everything from transmission trends to available hospital beds that can be transitioned to ICU use if necessary.
This approach could be relatively easily implemented, as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 already has information flow requirements in place. The major adjustment would involve requiring that electronic health record (EHR) companies employ open-standard interfaces that enable public health authorities to extract data relevant to the pandemic. Such an approach is already set up to allow patients access to their personal health information, within the parameters of the 21st Century Cures Act.
The article can be accessed at https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/20/coronavirus-national-digital-dashboard/,
