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CoverUS was honored to speak at last week's <a href="https://www.himssconference.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">HIMSS Conference</a> -- the largest healthcare technology event in the world, bringing 45,000 attendees from 90+ countries to explore the future of health innovation. CoverUS President Christopher Sealey was featured on panel with Nebula Genomics and Embleema discussing patient health data -- who should own it, whether it should be monetized, and how we can put patients in the driver's seat. This is another strong signal that CoverUS is increasingly considered a thought leader in the health innovation space. 
Some highlights from the conversation are below:
One of the main questions that has come to light is who owns patient data — the patient, provider or payer? But some are saying this is the wrong way to look at data; that it isn’t so much about ownership, but who is sitting in the driver’s seat when it comes to how that data is used.  “I think when we talk about ownership that is really the wrong question. It really is about control, privacy and consent,” Christopher Sealey, cofounder of CoverUS, said at the event.  “Because when we talk about ownership there are a lot of examples of data being used in negative ways that are exploitative. But there are also a lot of examples of data being used to empower patients to keep people healthy. So I want to be clear that we want to put patients in the driver's seat, and we want to disrupt negative healthcare practices.”
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“You have this system where the patients are the one actor excluded from the value chain of data,” Sealey said. “Yet you can also argue they are the one actor that can single handedly make that data the most valuable. So it’s not just directing your health record. It’s telling people how you felt after you took that pill, it’s revealing things about your lifestyle and purchase history.” When it comes to patients sharing their data in exchange for some form of compensation, there are still a lot of questions including value and use. But as patients continue to move into the consumer role there is no doubt the conversation has only just begun.  “I don’t think it's just a question of giving people their records and letting them broker it, it is understanding that they hold the key to the most powerful tool,” Sealey said. <a href="https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/patient-data-who-owns-it-who-can-improve-it-whats-it-worth" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Click here to read the full panel recap from Mobi Health News</a>

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Feb 20

2019

CoverUS Talks Patient Data at World's Largest Healthcare Technology Conference

CoverUS was honored to speak at last week's HIMSS Conference -- the largest healthcare technology event in the world, bringing 45,000 attendees from 90+ countries to explore the future of health innovation. CoverUS President Christopher Sealey was featured on panel with Nebula Genomics and Embleema discussing patient health data -- who should own it, whether it should be monetized, and how we can put patients in the driver's seat.

This is another strong signal that CoverUS is increasingly considered a thought leader in the health innovation space.

Some highlights from the conversation are below:

One of the main questions that has come to light is who owns patient data — the patient, provider or payer? But some are saying this is the wrong way to look at data; that it isn’t so much about ownership, but who is sitting in the driver’s seat when it comes to how that data is used.

“I think when we talk about ownership that is really the wrong question. It really is about control, privacy and consent,” Christopher Sealey, cofounder of CoverUS, said at the event. “Because when we talk about ownership there are a lot of examples of data being used in negative ways that are exploitative. But there are also a lot of examples of data being used to empower patients to keep people healthy. So I want to be clear that we want to put patients in the driver's seat, and we want to disrupt negative healthcare practices.”

“You have this system where the patients are the one actor excluded from the value chain of data,” Sealey said. “Yet you can also argue they are the one actor that can single handedly make that data the most valuable. So it’s not just directing your health record. It’s telling people how you felt after you took that pill, it’s revealing things about your lifestyle and purchase history.”

When it comes to patients sharing their data in exchange for some form of compensation, there are still a lot of questions including value and use. But as patients continue to move into the consumer role there is no doubt the conversation has only just begun.

“I don’t think it's just a question of giving people their records and letting them broker it, it is understanding that they hold the key to the most powerful tool,” Sealey said.

Click here to read the full panel recap from Mobi Health News