Freeing Data From the EHR
June 17, 2026 09:00 AM

From their site:
Healthcare data was meant to improve care. Instead, much of it remains trapped inside fragmented systems, inaccessible workflows, and legacy infrastructure that limit how clinicians, operators, researchers, and patients can actually use it. As AI adoption accelerates across healthcare, the industry is confronting a foundational question: what happens when the data powering care is difficult to access, incomplete, or locked inside the EHR?

In this webinar, Ruth Reader and guests will explore the growing movement to unlock healthcare data from traditional EHR systems and what it means for interoperability, AI, care delivery, and the future of digital health infrastructure.

The session will cover:

• Why healthcare data remains siloed despite years of interoperability efforts

• The structural incentives keeping data trapped inside EHR systems

• What “freeing” data actually looks like in practice

• How AI companies are approaching fragmented clinical data

• The role APIs, ambient tools, and infrastructure companies play in unlocking workflows

• Whether incumbents or startups are better positioned to solve the data problem

• How better data liquidity could improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency

• The tension between accessibility, privacy, and security

• What healthcare leaders should prioritize when building modern data infrastructure

• Whether the future of healthcare will still center around the traditional EHR at all

Panelists:

• Ruth Reader, Journalist and Writer at Second Opinion

• Lisa Bari, VP of Policy and Partnerships at Innovaccer

• Ryan Howells, Principal at Leavitt Partners