Stacy Lange:
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General Elevator pitch structure: Statement of problem. Then 2-3 sentences on how you’re solving the problem.
Thought: Make opening statement more geared toward value proposition of stakeholder or if it can’t be positive (problem statement), the problem is more specific to the stakeholder.
Problem statement:
From SHIELD Strategic Plan: Our healthcare system pays a high but largely hidden price for the lack of nationwide laboratory interoperability in terms of safety, quality, innovation, and efficiency. Medical errors stemming from misinterpretation of laboratory data pose a safety risk to patients.
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Our healthcare system pays a high but largely hidden price for the lack of nationwide laboratory interoperability in terms of safety, quality, innovation, and efficiency. Medical errors stemming from misinterpretation of laboratory data pose a safety risk to patients. Working as broad-based team of public and private industry stakeholders, the SHIELD Community strives to improve laboratory results interoperability by recommending consistent transmission of additional data elements that allow for meaningful interpretation and use of the laboratory result as it moves across the healthcare ecosystem. SHIELD’s goal is to achieve laboratory data interoperability by describing the same test the same way, every time.
Alternate version: Our healthcare system pays a high but largely hidden price for the lack of nationwide laboratory interoperability in terms of patient safety, quality, innovation, and efficiency. The SHIELD Community is a broad-based team of public and private industry stakeholders that strives to improve laboratory results interoperability by developing solutions that will lead to consistent transmission of additional (suggestion: a standard set of) data elements that allow for meaningful interpretation and use of the laboratory result as it moves across the healthcare ecosystem. SHIELD’s goal is to achieve laboratory data interoperability by describing the same test the same way, every time.
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