HealthIT Answers February 10, 2023
Jim Tate

By Jim Tate, EMR Advocate
Twitter: @jimtate, eMail: jimtate@emradvocate.com
Host of The Tate Chronicles#TateDispatches

Since the days of Hippocrates, a primary goal of medicine has been the collection of records related to diseases and treatments. Someone along the bumpy trail of history had the clever thought to begin keeping patient specific records. Soon after that someone came up with the bright idea that perhaps the ability to move those records around from point A to point B would be an advantage. So birthed the concept of healthcare data interoperability.

When I worked in a hospital decades ago all medical records were physical. Charts were stored in giant spinning circular wheels like something you might see in a Las Vegas casino....

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