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Yes! healthcare informatics is so much more than just dispensing magical vitamins, when MDs and patients need painkillers. We have had terms like PHR and EHR fo
by arpa 7y ago
Yes! healthcare informatics is so much more than just dispensing magical vitamins, when MDs and patients need painkillers. We have had terms like PHR and EHR for thirty years now, we have HL7, together with FHIR, and we have PACS, but these terms are still not ubiquitous. There has been major developments in developing classifiers like SNOMED, AHCI and ICD, yet MDs mostly still type the diagnosis up, and consider themselves lucky if the HIS has some templating capability. And very few HISes are capable of getting the personal health records to the patient - i mean, it is more likely you get a xerox of your case than something in a portable format that other HISes can understand if you change your healtcare provider...
However, it is somewhat strange that personal health projects keep dying - google health discontinued in 2011, microsoft healthvault to be closed in 2019 - and these are by major players - maybe somebody has some insight why they fail?