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comment by carboxyl
carboxyl  ·  3708 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Privatizing Medical Records Will Harm You

This article is quick to hand out blame, but these companies do provide legitimate services hosting records and developing programs to write them. That said, these companies do make stupid amounts of money for their systems. The ADA should have standardized electronic records years ago, but of course they've never been embracing of technology so we're stuck here. I imagine we'll get a law forcing companies to freely share records or something, getting the government to store all medical records would probably cause more problems than it would fix.