Posted on 6/2/2016
While most of the Information Technology world was focused on Apple this week (okay, even I had one monitor tuned to their live stream), those of us who pay most of our attention to the enterprise Health IT community were reading the latest news on such mundane topics as health data interoperability, Meaningful Use, the HITECH ACT, and EMR/HIS adoption in hospitals and clinics.
It was in that realm that I came across a recent article by John R. Graham of the conservative think-tank group known as the National Center for Policy Analysis. The article, “Interoperability” of Electronic Health Data is a Unicorn reviews the progress, or rather the lack of progress, in getting electronic medical record solutions to talk to one another. The article cal...