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Software links 'islands' of med records
A software contribution from IBM promises to connect "islands" of medical records. This interoperability is considered critical to establishing a national system of electronic health records. The national record system, in turn, is aimed at reducing healthcare costs and improving diagnoses and treatments.
The software, which IBM contributed to the Eclipse Foundation's Open Healthcare Framework (OHF) project, can connect information throughout the healthcare system to any Health Information Exchange (HIE). Software developers will also be able to build applications that can aggregate and sift through this information to improve healthcare delivery and research while protecting individual privacy.
"One of the more significant challenges in creating a national interoperable electronic healthcare information infrastructure is the ability to access disparate health records stored in proprietary medical IT systems," said Dan Pelino, general manager, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry. "By making the client side components of our HIE technology available through OHF, we hope to help solve this problem. As a result of this patient-centric systems approach, clinicians will be able to access health records from virtually any medical IT system, regardless of where the information resides."
Being able to share health information could create new services for consumers, researchers and practitioners. Besides lowering costs and improving quality of healthcare, the electronic storage of medical data may also allow public health officials to more easily analyze that data to identify emerging health trends.
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