Can APIs Solve Our ‘EHR Problem’?

A few weeks ago, OPEN MINDS CEO Monica E. Oss asked an important question – can electronic health record (EHR) vendors prevent consumers and other provider organizations from accessing health records based on interoperability between data products (see Are EHR Vendors Holding Patient Data Hostage?)? Whether or not this is truly a matter of nefarious EHR vendor practices or the evolving “state of the art”, it still remains that a major cause of interoperability in health care is . . .