• Otter@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Here’s a more technical one: health information

    It’s a huge pain trying to transfer health information, between patients, doctors, different clinics, hospitals, etc. If you try and move far enough, your records might get transferred as a bunch of PDFs or scanned images on a CD.

    There is no good standard that ticks all the boxes, so it’s not just a matter of getting everyone to agree. A solid standard that addresses all the needs would be amazing, and it would help improve healthcare so much.

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        1 year ago

        I should have worded it differently, it’s possible there is a best standard that I don’t know enough about. I don’t know enough about OpenEHR, but that’s something I’ll read more about :)

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      I completely agree. All the different EMR systems make doing any research just that more tedious. And like you said it’d be so nice to just walk into a health care facility and not worry about paperwork

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      Some EHRs are pretty good about this nowadays. Epic, for example, allows you to share info across health systems. The user has to enable it though, which is a problem due to low adoption among older patients.

      Also, this will be less of a problem in coming years due to increasing consolidation of health systems.

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        1 year ago

        I can’t speak to much of this, but I have a friend who works on the technical side of health insurance. Specifically he is helping with FHIR. I did some HL7 work a long time ago which lets health systems talk to each other. FHIR is supposed to be a more comprehensive offshoot (I asked if it was HL7 on steroids and wasn’t corrected).

        Unfortunately, I may have misunderstood. My career took me a different path than his so I’m way out of date on it.