Right from the get-go, I was intrigued by this post which used the phrase "Data Liquidity" since this term is new to me, but I grasp a meaning for it right away. The post points out the importance of interoperability for care continuity and how this impacts value and quality driven care. As a technologist, ideas and concepts like this always interest me and it represents an area I've dealt with as a software engineer responsible for tying systems together into a coherent whole. I understand the need for continuing technology improvements in this area. But an even more frustrating and worrisome impediment to data liquidity are institutional barriers . I have often run into mazes of siloed data, groundless HIPPA fear-reactions, lack of data management infrastructures, turf wars and other strictly institutional impediments . I understand that hospitals and healthcare systems are large and complex organizations. But I find that often the data management policies in bu
Thoughts and Ideas of a working software engineer. Observations of the oft-forgotten, but painfully obvious. Remember: Experience pays, and experience costs.