Re:Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records ...
by lostlogin on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @01:53PM
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Everything uses HL7, every last bit of equipment that has patient details on it, and people are familiar with working with it. This will be why they do it I think. I don’t think it can change now as it’s so deeply entrenched.
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Re:Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records ...
by commandar on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:40PM
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We're certainly starting to see a gradual transition over to XML/JSON via FHIR, and I've even worked with a couple of vendors that are pushing RESTful web services as their preferred integration method, but agreed: there's absolutely massive inertia behind legacy HL7.
Implementation costs for a primary EMR are in the millions and most ancillary systems still cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to put in place. There's a lot of financial incentive for healthcare organizations to keep using what "works", even if it is ugly as hell.