“Yesterday and today I spent once again at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Atlanta, rushing from panel session to vendor booth to interoperability demo and back (or forward–I’m not sure which direction I’ve been going). All these peregrinations involve a quest to find progress in the areas of interoperability and openness.
The U.S. has a mobile population, bringing their aches and pains to a plethora of institutions and small providers. That’s why health care needs interoperability. Furthermore, despite superb medical research, we desperately need to share more information and crunch it in creative new ways. That’s why health care needs openness.”
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Andy Oram, O’Reilly Radar, 3 March 2010
