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The system also accesses providers’ information, such as availability, schedule, special services and promotions to help the travel professionals and travelers make the right decisions.
The amount and complexity of data in the medical field, as well as privacy concerns, makes this information different from the travel industry.
But a model built on creating interoperability between existing systems will provide a robust, easy-to-implement and cheaper solution.
The most interesting outcome of establishing such an interchange is that the patient’s electronic record becomes a product instead of a condition to build the system.
Investing in health care automation is the right idea. Imposing a single approach to solve the information technology problem is always the wrong approach.
