Why A Grocery Chain Supports Health Data Liquidity
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Health Populi | March 18, 2014
The CEO of a family-owned grocery store chain wrote a letter to New York State lawmakers to support $65 million worth of spending on a computer system for health information in the state.
That grocer is Danny Wegman, and that project is the Statewide Health Information Network, aka SHIN-NY.
In his letter beginning, “Dear New York Legislator,” Wegman identifies several benefits he expects would flow out of the health IT project:
1. Improve health care for all New Yorkers
2. Lower health care costs, through reducing hospital readmission rates and reducing duplicate testing.
3. Lead to health data “liquidity” (my word).
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