Mike Miliard

By giving patients control over their data, the technology could enable better privacy protections, more efficiency and easier information exchange.

Mackinac enables easier collaboration, expedited document sharing between providers and payers, Hyland says.

Engaging with different stakeholders and coaching care teams has helped the health system realize a 40 percent improvement in 30-day readmissions.

Payers are sizing up the ledger technology for payments and claims processing, but one big area of growth could be next-generation personal health records.

Wolf, who most recently worked for Chartis, spent 10 years as chief operating officer of Kaiser Permanente's Federation, where he focused on care delivery, data governance, population health management and more.

Seamless interoperability will enable development of better treatment plans between VA and DoD physicians, Shulkin says.

Center for Children's Digestive Health shared protected health info with FileFax, but didn't have a BAA in place.

While the number of providers facing lower reimbursement fell - 257,000 docs were penalized in 2015 and 209,000 in 2016 - the size of the downward adjustment is larger than in years past.

Los Angeles-based RadNet won for the easiest bill to understand, with a bill HHS said is "as concise as possible."

The industry association calls on CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt to focus on the key issues of data sharing and interoperability and to reduce the need for multiple reports from IT systems.