Are We (Finally) Ready For The Health ID Card?

In 2014, I had the chance to listen to Herb Quinde, the then-Public Sector Director at Microsoft, espouse the potential in a national health identification (ID) card—a "health care rap sheet" that would have a basic, standard set of critical information about each U.S. citizen (see Stop Integrating Data & Start Liberating Data and The Health ID Card: A Double-Edged Sword). One of the goals of his plan was to unify what the health care field was measuring and make those measures "ubiquitous" to every health care interaction. In 2016 (see The Quest For The HHS . . .