Provider-led Graphite Health platform is committed to the “Digital Hippocratic Oath,” with the aim of enabling plug-and-play interoperability and standardization in health tools for health systems and patients through an app ecosystem.
A member-led company, Graphite Health was launched by Presbyterian Healthcare Services, SSM Health, and Intermountain Healthcare this week. This company will build on a common data language and create a data platform that is standardized and interoperable.
Graphite Health framed its goal to enable a secure, and open marketplace that facilitates in the distribution of digital health tools for entrepreneurs and health systems alike.
The CEO of Graphite Health Ries Robunson made a statement, “Right now, when a hospital wants to adopt new innovative solutions, it is hampered by overly cumbersome processes that can require years to implement,” further adding, “Graphite Health will offer a true paradigm shift to deliver on the promise of lower costs and faster integration of solutions that significantly improve patient care and experience, while still maintaining the highest privacy standards.”
Hospitals wishing to implement this new software face a daunting process of customization, security evaluation, and contract negotiation which means that health systems would need to fully commit to adopting a new digital tool before truly utilizing it.
The founding members of Graphite health stated that the company will work to nullify these challenges in adoption.
Its data language has been built of the FHIR framework to help reduce the inefficiencies in data translation while helping to support plug-and-play digital applications.
As a result, health system members can utilize trustworthy digital tools through the process of app marketplaces. The health system can benefit from these advances leading to better quality, low costing, and more efficient care.
Graphite Health is anticipating additional health systems and philanthropies to join the coalition in the following months. Citing the “Digital Hippocratic Oath” the company states that it builds on autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice stating these are essential to its vision. This oath allows for them to build on trust between doctors, patients, health systems, and app developers.
The nonprofit company, Graphite Health is modeled after CivicaRx, led by Intermountain as well. CivicaRx works to help make generic health medications widely available and affordable.
This venture followed the establishment of app marketplaces by health IT companies, which aim to allow soft wares developed by small third-party vendors to integrate electronic health records.
