easier said than done. every system has its own perspective of the patient, but you can't simply share that. there has to be a canonical format that works in mu

easier said than done. every system has its own perspective of the patient, but you can't simply share that. there has to be a canonical format that works in multiple contexts, but all of the so called standards have been horrible. just consider the case of drug records. most standard vocabularies are based around the pharmacy's view of the data, which does not work for prescribing meds. and then there's the problem of importing data ... you're usually downloading a prescription history, but what the doctor almost always wants is a record of meds the patient is currently on ... not prescriptions from years ago. and then there's privacy issues when it comes to certain specialties that make it difficult to share prescription data freely. and this doesn't even get into all of the units problems that lazy software developers can't ever get right!