Healthcare IT Today August 29, 2019
Standards are both critical and frustrating. Health care standards may be where Web browsers were around 1995, as Internet access was growing explosively and new extensions to Web standards were being proposed right and left. In those years, getting your Web page to show up in readable form on every browser was a challenge that called for constant user testing. The advent of mobile phones made proper layout even more difficult, as well as more urgent. And the incompatibilities have still not been fully resolved; I have three browsers on my own system and switch between them to handle different web sites.
In health care, a thriving industry has grown up to work around the failure of standards in data...