Problem Tech Solves

The ability to effectively access and compute EHR data across health systems is essential as it allows for better quality and breadth, enabling treatments on a population-level scale. However, the interoperability of EHRs across U.S. health systems are currently fraught with accessibility and implementation issues. This is due to a lack of standardization, which results in the process being time-consuming, prone to mistranslation, and often lacking reproducible results. There are many pain points that motivate 1upHealth to solve interoperability barriers. For example, operational inefficiencies create physician burnout, affecting payers, providers and patients alike. Physicians currently spend over 50% of their time completing clinical documentation, taking away time from patient-facing interactions. It is essential that we close gaps in care by enabling seamless data exchange across the healthcare industry. This will ultimately reduce costs and improve patient outcomes, creating a better healthcare ecosystem as a whole. For example, through seamless data interoperability, we can better prior authorization or claims adjudication for health plans, which will allow them to reduce costs and identify inefficiencies to allow for faster data exchange between members or providers. From the patient’s perspective, data interoperability means that consumers can aggregate all their health information in one place, with the ability to share, and restrict, access to their own health information with whoever they want, whether it is their provider or a 3rd party health app. Being in charge of one's own health data creates patient empowerment, which leads to better individual and population health.