Healthcare IT Today August 4, 2022
For more than a decade, healthcare has struggled with sharing data. We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. As an industry, we often point at the banking industry as a model to aspire to, but perhaps a better exemplar is the GIS community. They share their data using open standards and common platforms because they share a common goal – to make the world a better place.
Healthcare Data Interoperability
Data in healthcare is siloed. The Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) that have been deployed over the past 15 years do a good job at capturing health data but are terrible at sharing it. Only recently have EHR vendors begun rolling out APIs,...