By Maia Laing, Senior Business Consultant, HHS Twitter:@HHSIDEALab Healthcare in America is a pairing of extremes. When ranked, the United States has some of the very best and the very worst healthcare metrics. Americans are able to spend twofold more per capita on healthcare than the OECD average, yet still end up with one-in-four patients who underuse certain lifesaving medications…

By Gil Alterovitz, Research Affiliate, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Kristen Honey, Innovator in Residence,  HHS Office of the Chief Technology Officer Twitter: @HHSIDEALab When we began our 14-week tech health sprint in October 2018, we did not realize the profound lessons we would learn in just a few months. Together with federal agencies and private sector organizations, we demonstrated…

By James Daniel and Jacob Ashendorf, HHS Office of the Chief Technology Officer Twitter: @HHSIDEALab We all want the best for our family’s healthcare. Sometimes that means driving across state borders to access better medical care. Since many public health immunization information systems (IIS) are structured by jurisdiction, records inevitably contain data gaps. To bridge that divide, more robust data exchange…