I assume that there are and that they are all individually fantasizing about being the company that builds that standard.
So long as health care is a product needed by every individual in the country and remains the beneficiary of some $1T in federal outlays (to say nothing of state and private costs), equilibrium will be elusive. There is far too much money to be made in the churn.
You should checkout OpenEhr[0], "enable the development and deployment of open, interoperable and computable patient-centric health information systems"
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If these medical records were in an open/standard/unencumbered format there would be startups all over this.
I assume that there are and that they are all individually fantasizing about being the company that builds that standard.
So long as health care is a product needed by every individual in the country and remains the beneficiary of some $1T in federal outlays (to say nothing of state and private costs), equilibrium will be elusive. There is far too much money to be made in the churn.
Here's an open-source one in Canada that has about a 20% market share in Ontario: http://oscar-emr.com/
Built by an engineer-turned-physician.
Thinking about it, it is probably no coincidence that this was done in Canada which has public healthcare.
Health Level 7? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Level_7
From my understanding, HL7 is designed for data transfer rather than persistence.
You should checkout OpenEhr[0], "enable the development and deployment of open, interoperable and computable patient-centric health information systems"
0: http://www.openehr.org/