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Month: March 2016

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Health IT interoperability remains elusive –

  March 1, 2016  |    drk

This April 11, 2015 article in Modern Healthcare discusses the lack of interoperability of health IT systems.  This is probably one of the greatest challenges we have in healthcare. Interoperability of electronic health records remains a bridge too far for many providers, despite more than a decade of federal emphasis on information exchange and $29.1… Read More


Halamka gives EHR advancements a C+

  March 1, 2016  |    drk

This is a very good assessment of the Healthcare IT (HIT) systems by fellow Harbor-UCLA Emergency Medicine grad John Halamka.  He hits the nail on the head on many of the problems.  I think he is actually pretty generous with his grades as interoperability needs to change significantly so physicians are not mired down by… Read More


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