‘Blue Cross of Northeast Pennsylvania is deploying smartphone apps to 5,000 to 10,000 patients, to help them carry their medical histories with them when going from one doctor to another.
While the Obama administration is leading a drive to standardize healthcare practitioners nationwide on a single format for electronic health records, that effort is just getting under way. For now, when patients go to multiple healthcare providers, it’s likely that the practitioners won’t be able to share medical records electronically.”
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Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek Healthcare, 7 October 2009
