Healthcare Fusion: An Innovative Framework for Health Information Management

Perhaps the main goal of healthcare management is the attainment of effective, efficient, equitable, timely, safe, and patient-centered care. At the core of this lies the need for an integrated pathway for healthcare data storage, analysis, and utilization. The potential exists for a centralized, cloud-based system that links physicians, hospitals, public health agencies, insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and most importantly, patients. Such a system could improve clinical quality management and support the delivery of consistent and effective treatments. Undoubtedly, massive integration of personalized health and large-scale epidemiological and molecular data, coupled with the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, is already in process. Here, we envision the healthcare fusion framework, which unites all stakeholders in healthcare. This fusion aims to achieve culturally and demographically relevant outcomes in precision medicine and population health, in ways that are convincing to stakeholders and investors. In addition, the proposed framework may prove relevant in informing governmental and private sector responses to sudden public health crises. 