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Fifty years after President Eisenhower paved the way for an interstate highway network, we need
an interconnected healthcare system to electronically link physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, public
health agencies and other key first responders.
Building Eisenhower’s system for today’s needs requires action
now, and developing industrywide data standards of interoperability
is vital. Interoperability means that every stakeholder in
healthcare will have the ability to securely exchange electronic
data, be it in the course of routine care or after an extreme disaster.
This may sound impossible, considering the vast networks
that we hope to connect: hundreds of thousands of doctors; thousands
of hospitals; tens of thousands of pharmacies; hundreds of
insurers, 300 million citizens; all 50 state governments; Medicare;
public health agencies; long-term care facilities; and dozens of
other entities.
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