10/23/2017

AMA’s Plan to Bring Order to Unruly Medical Data

The medical group is building partnerships around a common model

Responding to research that showed big data wasn’t always delivering better data, the medical group is building partnerships around a common model.

This week the American Medical Association (AMA) launched a new initiative that hopes to resolve data gaps and discrepancies across the healthcare industry.

The Integrated Health Model Initiative, according to a release, is designed to create a “shared framework for organizing health data, emphasizing patient-centric information, and refining data elements to those most predictive of achieving better outcomes.” Practically speaking, that means IHMI is focused on helping doctors better understand their patients without dealing with the confusion of different proprietary terminology across different databases.

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