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Interoperable Electronic Healthcare Record: A Case For Adoption Of A National Standard To Stem The Ongoing Healthcare Crisis, Deth Sao, Amar Gupta, David A. Gantz
Interoperable Electronic Healthcare Record: A Case For Adoption Of A National Standard To Stem The Ongoing Healthcare Crisis, Deth Sao, Amar Gupta, David A. Gantz
Deth Sao
Interoperable electronic health records (EHR) have the capacity to deliver health care at optimal costs and quality in the United States, but current private and public initiatives have delayed nationwide implementation by failing to overcome several obstacles. These obstacles include: widespread reluctance in adopting health information technology (HIT); differing technical and semantic standards for communication between vendor systems; and legal challenges, which are mainly based on liability, privacy, and security concerns. This paper examines these challenges and the inadequacies of current HIT-EHR implementation strategies, questioning in particular the validity of privacy and security-based concerns. A comparison with the U.S. finance …