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Arguing For Open Electronic Health Records

Posted by Zonk on from the keeping-it-on-the-up-and-up dept.

mynameismonkey writes "openEHR guru Tim Cook, writing in a guest blog at A Scanner Brightly, discusses why Electronic Health Record developers should use open standards. Why are so few doctors using EHR systems? And, as more and more hospital EHR systems come online across the country, what do we have to fear from proprietary databases? It's one thing to find out your social security number was stolen. Now add your mental health and STD results to those records."

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  1. Ask slashdot: What's it like to eat pussy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please discuss.

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  2. Misleading Summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The standards are open, not your personal records