These systems are primarily designed to support clinical care. Research is an after thought. Health care systems will have to decide it's a top level priority.

These systems are primarily designed to support clinical care. Research is an after thought. Health care systems will have to decide it's a top level priority. There has been modest progress through wider efforts: - Standard vocabularies, eg LOINC codes for different kinds of lab tests - Mappings between vocabularies, eg OMOP - Semantically rich vocabularies, eg OBO's OBI