“True electronic health record interoperability, with seamless information transfer between systems made by different companies, is still years off, agreed panelists discussing health information technology at the Swedish Medical Center Symposium “Innovation in the Age of Reform.”
They also agreed that when interoperability comes, it will quickly identify emerging public health problems, address outcomes disparities, and lead to new drugs and other treatments because connected systems will, in effect, function as a massive clinical database.”
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Alexander Otto, Internal Medicine News, 31 January 2011
