André Picard on Interoperability and why it is important

[Alies Maybee]

As patients and caregivers, we want seamless, connected care and access to our comprehensive health information. This is a great article by André Picard on interoperability and how it is necessary to lay the foundation for a health system we want. Take a look!
It’s crucial that health systems speak to each other -Globe -Dec 17 2024- Andre Picard .pdf

[Chris Johnston]

@Alies-Maybee Thanks for sharing Alies!

This is a great article, though I admit to being torn on the topic of interoperability:

• my practical side knows that this is a barrier to better healthcare and needs to be resolved - but

• my cautious side suspects that - in the absence of robust legislation and oversight - lack of interoperability may be a safeguard against predatory commercial players in the healthcare industry who are aggressively keen to harvest healthcare data by any means to train their proprietary AI engines.

Hopefully development of legislation will move faster than progress toward interoperability - though both seem to be moving at a glacial pace at the moment!