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How health care data sharing puts you at risk

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The recent stir over electronic health care record requirements and the much-debated stimulus package raises important issues related to the portability and interoperability of your medical information. Interoperability is, according to SearchSOA.com, "... the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort on the part of the customer." Interoperability is critical to information technology because the ability to exchange information and use that information is what makes IT networks, well, work. If my network and your network cannot talk to each other, and if my database cannot make use of your data, our two systems may as well be on different planets. If, however, our systems can exchange data easily and quickly, the reach of our networks has increased – and the depth of our databases (and thus the value of those databases in our information technology applications) has grown.

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