Executive Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, The University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell

"What we in healthcare have always known is that caring for patients requires collaboration. The last several years have expanded our concept of collaboration from multiple clinicians to multiple participants, including other providers, the insurance industry, local and national government and the public. Only with all of these entities can we improve the health system. Sharing information is central to collaboration and the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework gives all of us a set of guidelines we can follow to share data in our communities, throughout the region and the nation. The Common Framework has been most helpful as we build a health information exchange called NYCareConnect that links hospitals, long term care facilities, neighborhood physicians and clinics. The Framework gave us a starting point to have the conversation necessary to share data in a secure and useful way. I've been proud to help lead Connecting for Health's effort to convene key stakeholders to forge a common direction that will help all of us to better serve patients."

Herbert Pardes, M.D. was, until recently, the President and Chief Executive Officer of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and its Healthcare System, the largest not-for-profit hospital in the world.   He is a noted psychiatrist...
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