[Skeletor]

I think it's great that there are projects like http://www.open-emr.org/ , https://oscar-emr.com/oscar/ , http://openmrs.org/ , and https://www.hl7.org/fhir/http.html ;

I think these tools would be even better if they released their code under LGPL (instead of GPL) so that lazy commercial EHR developers would reuse and help maintain some core modules to promote more interoperability.

I don't think it's going to ever be possible (or that it is even desirable) to ever have a "Universal EHR" that everyone is forced to use through either government intervention or through market/economic forces. We can all exchange emails with each other, but we aren't all forced to use the same email client

The reason that the entire healthcare system seems broken to most consumers is legacy EHR systems in large hospitals. These legacy enterprise vendors are essentially what Oracle was 20 years ago in the rest of the enterprise software market before companies like Salesforce.com came along. Another part of this "broken" feeling is the difficulty of exchanging data between different EHR systems; but this doesn't have to be the case.

"If you've seen one HL7 standard implementation, you have seen exactly one HL7 standard implementation." Which means most systems don't interoperates with anyone else's systems unless there is an existing commercial relationship that forced everyone to interoperate on a local scale.

For anyone looking to work on an idea to improve healthcare check out: https://www.drchrono.com/api/ and/or https://www.drchrono.com/careers/

[mabynogy]

Very clear and interesting concept:

https://app.drchrono.com/ehr-emr/medical-form-templates/5561...