Defending
their turf June 6, 2015 -- So it's data silos not missile silos but both provide formidable defense. For the EHR vendors, one way to defend their turf is to not share their data. In other words, with data silos. Bad news for the FHIR folks. No EHR vendor will expose all their data fields to any public API (Application Programming Interface). This will make it hard for people like me to build useful medical apps. It's a deadly blow to any notion of medical data access and sharing, and ought to have been forbidden by the ACA... Oops, bad oversight! |
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Dan Keller's Nursing, Health Policy & Healthcare Technology Blog
Nursing Informatics · Clinical Perspectives · Healthcare Systems
"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798