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Mighty Casey is entering hospice

Society for Participatory Medicine

It links to her online medical record, as a protest against healthcare’s lack of interoperable records. A regulation was proposed that would require x% of a hospital’s patients to use the new EMR systems, but the hospital industry got it watered down so that only one patient would be required, to satisfy Federal regulations.

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DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. Interoperability Showcase uses car crash to show how connected data really can improve patient care (March 5). Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber: 2013 edition. Google Glass startup expecting third healthcare client in less than 6 months (Feb.

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Electronic Health Records : History, hurdles and the promise of Blockchain

Lloyd Price

The main obstacle has always been interoperability, something that blockchain technology offers a solution to. Unfortunately, the 4 year timeframe was idealistic for the time and the project was eventually shut down in 2013, mainly because it was taking too long and it was costing much more than anticipated. million as compensation.[2]

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After A Troubled Start, Can Telstra Health Be Australia’s First Digital Health Unicorn?

Lloyd Price

All the acquisitions were a string of pearls and MD was to be the string that tied them all together …hospital EMR products, aged care management products, pharmacy script dispensing products and so on. The crown jewel in the plan back then was MedicalDirector, the then market-leading GP patient management system (PMS).