Pros and cons of centralized and decentralized data networks for interoperability

Interoperability is one of the biggest and longest-standing challenges in healthcare. Government policymakers and private-sector companies of all shapes and sizes have been working on the problem for decades, offering all manner of approaches to the technical, syntactic, semantic and business-case hurdles of more seamless information exchange.

Stuart Hanson is CEO of Avaneer Health, an administrative healthcare collaborative data network that…