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Epic Fail: Electronic Health Records and Lack of Interoperability

by friism on 10/22/15, 1:31 AM with 1 comments

• by rampage24life on 10/22/15, 7:58 PM

  This is a huge issue that healthcare is not dealing with. Having the ability to have access of your medical record anywhere at anytime is crucial especially in emergency situation. Having the my medical ready to be used on any system is a problem caused by the multiple EHR company. It's like having different Microsoft Word programs and they all produce the same type of doc file. Yet some genius in the company thought it was smart to limit the accessibility for each software. It's like come on! You guys are all trying to do the same thing and you are trying to be secretive about it. Doesn't make any sense at all.

  I'm on a mission to deal with this problem. Our medical record should be available at every medical facility in cases we check into that facility. Our data shouldn't be a problem to be read on any computer system out there. Data is simple. It's the complexity of the EHR system trying to dominate one another that causes this problem to happen.

  There's a huge elephant in the room when discussing medical record, and no one is bothering to deal with it due to their own selfish needs.