Aligning Incentives around Health Information Exchange

Jody Cervenak, a Pittsburgh-based principal with the Denver-based Aspen Advisors consulting firm, has spent years in the healthcare IT space, including a long stint at the UPMC health system in Pittsburgh. Her perspective? Only when we can fully align incentives among stakeholders can we get to the next phase of HIE evolution.

Jody Cervenak, a Pittsburgh-based principal with the Denver-based Aspen Advisors consulting firm, has spent years in the healthcare IT space, including a long stint at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) health system in Pittsburgh, Pa. She spoke recently with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland about the topic of health information exchange, for his upcoming September cover story on HIE. Below are longer excerpts from that interview earlier this summer.

What do you see as the fundamental obstacles to HIE progress right now?

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