NY Times Editorial:
Our Pen-and-Paper Doctors. Unless a big player like Google becomes the de facto standard, or every medical outfit agrees and standardizes on a set of file formats (skeptical), this will fail miserably (though centralization brings the usual privacy concerns). I’ll give you a for-instance. As a business, I look at others’ accounting systems with horror. Each ‘upgrade’ brings more mayhem. Accounting ledgers and writing instruments may have been slower, but they were consistent. Cast me as a Luddite; I care not.
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I used to be in IT for a large local hospital chain.
Trust me, you do NOT want to know how trivial it is to access medical histories, HIPPA be dammed.