Dive Brief:
- The Safety Movement Foundation's Open Data Pledge now has 49 vendor signatures promising to share their data to improve patient safety.
- HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced at the recent HIMSS16 meeting that health IT companies providing 90% of EHRs in U.S. hospitals, including Cerner, Epic, and Meditech, have pledged to implement commitments to improve health information flow to consumers and providers, Healthcare Dive reported.
- The commitments are: consumer access, standards implementation, and no data blocking.
Dive Insight:
The Patient Safety Movement Foundation was established to encourage entrepreneurs to develop new uses of health data to improve patient safety and reduce preventable deaths.
Joe Kiani, the foundation founder said in a statement, "With data sharing, we will hopefully also unlock the mysteries behind cancer and heart disease and help identify therapies that are most likely to work."
Some of the companies that have signed the pledge include Oracle, GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, and IBM Watson Health.