“Our health data is scattered – temporally and geographically; paper and electronic; on scraps in drawers and folders in filing cabinets; EHRs, EMRs, PHRs and research database silos; and distributed amongst a huge range of different providers, starting with our usual family physician and specialists but then extending to those forgotten emergency rooms; late night home visits; physiotherapists, dentists, naturopaths, iridologists and the myriad of others you have consulted over a lifetime. Our health information is probably more fragmented that most realise – all that potentially valuable data not easily available to us…”
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Heather Leslie, Archetypical, 21 February 2010
