TTC #253 Electronic Health Records (EHR) as enabler of Digital Health

We caught up with Tim Carter, Health Innovation Technologist at Equinix, after his presentation and panel discussion at ECHAlliance Digital Health & Wellness Summit hosted by Mobile World Congress. Tim talked about the new wave of eHealth being IoT or Io-Everything as they prefer it at Equinix. He predicts how devices connect to each other is where healthcare is going, quickly transforming the industry and taking people by surprise. Tim talks about the rapidly growing healthcare economy and explains the real question is not health digitization but rather health and healthcare outcomes. He explains Equinix's part in "connecting the dots" for fragmented ecosystems and how part of the ECHAlliance summit was answering: how do you connect the dots and how can you help others connect the dots in a better more efficient way that is going to work for better healthcare outcomes.
We talk about the phenomenal amount of innovation and ideas and how regardless of the various stages of funding, companies in this industry are conquering the world. While discussing the questions posed during the summit around privacy, electronic health records, personal data, Tim explained how the eHealth sector is developing so fast it will take the market by storm. He says a lot of people still don't "get it" and haven't invested in research, "these things are going crazy, everyone is predicting that if you take the EHR and the privacy issues and the naysayers and the pro camp, actually, in 5-10 years they're just going to be laughing at us, calling us dinosaurs", he says, "they'll forget we were even having these conversations." Interviewed by Venetia Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central.