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It is sobering to think that I sat down and began writing a web interface to an electronic medical record system (the Oracle database at Boston Children’s Hospital) more than 25 years ago (see “Building national electronic medical record systems via the World Wide Web,”<\/a> a paper from 1996).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is a celebration (agenda<\/a>) of the 25th anniversary of the Boston Children\u2019s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP). I’ll try to take some notes and write a blog post later about what I learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For at least 25 years we’ve had all of the tech building blocks that we’ve needed to implement almost any kind of IT support for health care. Yet in the US we have ended up with a unified database of every ad that we\u2019ve ever clicked on and are discussing the possibility of a unified medical record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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