Yoo: EHR interoperability gaps create opportunities for API startups
Julie Yoo · Software Eats Care Delivery · Jul 31, 2019 · at 2:42
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Julie Yoo, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), outlines how infrastructure gaps in legacy health systems create opportunities for middleware and API startups.
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“And what I'm referring to there is really the laying down of electronic health records in the provider market and many of the core systems on the payer side that are creating these systems of record that are very good at storing data. What they're not so great at is creating interoperability of creating data liquidity and, you know, that as you can see here in phase two is, is one of the big areas of opportunity that we see for startups today is, you know, how do I create liquidity around clinical data, around administrative data, around transactional interactions and essentially take the form of APIs or other types of platform companies that, Are kind of the bus between all the different service providers and stakeholders in the space.”
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