In this session, the panelists discussed the successes and challenges of a data collaboration between Gastro Health and Lynx.MD, and provided real-world insights into how a physician platform can harness its data to enhance patient care and generate additional revenue while maintaining compliance with applicable privacy and security regulations.

Session panelists included:

• Omer Dror, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lynx.MD
• Rich Weissmark, Senior Vice President of Strategic Operations, Gastro Health
• Moderator: Stephen Bernstein, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery

Top takeaways included:

• Organizing and understanding patient data can require a large up-front investment, as it can be costly, time-consuming and challenging. This is often the largest hurdle in data collaborations; but once that step is addressed, the ability to harness the data for patient care and research can be exponentially valuable over time.
• Data has a multitude of uses, e.g., internally within a practice to improve patient care and externally with life sciences partners and other stakeholders to analyze trends and forge innovation (provided that data shared externally is properly deidentified, or takes the form of a limited data set that is subject to proper data-use agreements). A physician practice with curated data that can be meaningfully used will be far better positioned to discuss and negotiate value-based care and alternative payment models with various payors.
• While some data modeling focuses on just one use, the best opportunities may come from innovations that consider all of the other potential uses for the data. The specific disease states that [...]
  
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