Health Data Sharing Improved During Pandemic, but Barriers Remain
email article The COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged more institutions to share healthcare data, but barriers need to be overcome to make data sharing more commonplace, experts said at an online health data event sponsored by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). "In many ways the pandemic itself was a use case for data sharing and there were many lessons learned," said Nakela Cook, MD, MPH, executive director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, at the event on Thursday. "What we probably knew even before the pandemic is that data sharing within and across sectors is re...