The EHR interoperability gap that costs lives
My grandfather might still be here were it not for how electronic health records exist in a silo.
As an incoming stroke alert, the ambulance would soon bring him to a hospital system he had never been to. Unaware that he was on a blood thinner, their well-meaning thrombolysis converted his thrombotic stroke to a devastating hemorrhagic death sentence. But how could something like this even happen?
The electronic health record (EHR) …
The EHR interoperability gap that costs lives
