“There is an important lesson here with ramifications for health IT: What is the good of information if not shared and used improve mankind? Now that many hospitals and medical practices have implemented EHR/EMR systems, they have a vast amount of powerful health data. Questions are now being asked to determine how digitized health data can be further shared to benefit researchers, public health officials, and the communication between medical institutions/offices.”
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Nicolel, EMR Blog, 1 November 2009

