Health care data as a public utility: how do we get there? (Mohit Kaushal, Margaret Darling, Brookings)

Forty-six million Americans use mobile fitness and health apps. Over half of providers serving Medicare or Medicaid patients are using electronic health records (EHRs). Despite such advances and proliferation of health data and its collection, we are not yet on an inevitable path to unleashing the often-promised “power of data” because data remain proprietary and fragmented among insurers, providers, health record companies, government agencies, and researchers

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/05/18-health-data-public-utility-kaushal-darling