Interesting long form piece on the real world effects of The Cures Act — of which FHIR and the apps we build play a part.
“In any scheme of transparency in which you have experts being transparent to non experts, you’re going to get a significant amount of information loss.”
C. Thi Nguyen
Well worth a read — all 11 minutes.
Sometimes we focus so much on the code and the implementation that we miss how the rest of the world interprets and works with what we build.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/the-curious-side-effects-of-medical-transparency
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