5 Leading Healthcare U.S. Firms All Set To Share Patient Data

                             Data Interoperability and Maintaining low cost national models are very essential. So this need has prompted all the leading Health Care Organizations of the US to digitize all their medical information. In this way, all the day of their patients can be exchanged in a very safe way. These companies also boost of being the biggest users of the e-health care records.  

                              This collaboration, which was revealed 2 days back in a press conference in Washington DC, has been called as the Care Connectivity Consortium. It has been said these 5 health care organizations care to million of patients around the US. One of the Chairman of the health care organizations says, “ Today, the whole world is going digitize and paper is a perishable commodity. One cant expect to store all the important and confidential information about our patients on paper and its not a pretty way of sharing information.  Maintaining connectivity is the key and we strive for this through this move”. 

                               Exchange of the data of the patients is what these Health care organizations are planning to do. Of course, this would be done after taking the permission for the patient. The operations of CCC is still being worked out and once everything is in place, its members will start sharing small bits of information about the patients pertaining to their medical history, allergies they suffer, the drugs that they take and their basic demographics. This is indeed a very good move, meant to safeguard the welfare of the patients of the US. It will take affect very soon and how effective it would be, that only time will tell.