[Deinumite]

This basically sums up my brief stint in healthcare.

Every hospital / doctor wants to talk about the wealth of medical information they are sitting on... as you said most notes are just transcribed ad lib, or input into rigid EMR systems, there is no middle ground.

Also the language spoken by healthcare software is HL7 which is another nightmare in itself.

[throwaway7645]

Please tell me of this HL7.

[Dlotan]

Its the protocol in which health applications talk to each other. It is extremely complicated to say the least.