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Originally Posted by nanotube
Not sure if I'm misunderstanding your idea. I'm not sure having a central database is doable at all. I work at a non profit healthcare company and we constantly struggle with putting different sets of data together from different physician offices. To be honest its just impossible. And mind you, this is just ONE healthcare group. Imagine when you want to expand it throughout the country....crazy/wrong/useless healthcare data will be flowing around the "database".
Of course, I agree that having such a database would help a lot, at least we wont have 10 sets of data from the same freaking patient. There are too many electronic health records in the US that its just impossible to implement such a central database idea.
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It is actually part of what Obama wants to do. Electronic medical files. I have a feeling there will be a proprietary database with a proprietary set of software that each office has.