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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. Why would...? by WED+Fan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why would /. geeks be worried about their STD histories falling into the wrong hands? A prerequisite to that would be first a case of a virus jumping from online chat or a hentai pic to human host, then /. readers would be worried about it.

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