Health care poses a dilemma which law must address and resolve before it reaches a similar crisis. Over 20 years ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) warned that the equivalent of two Boeing 747s crashed each day, killing all on board, due to the lack of health care technologies to share life-saving information concerning patients in the care of the system. Read First, Do No Harm if you want to never enter a hospital again or submit to the care of health care professionals. An alarm bell was rung for which there has yet to be a response.
The dilemma is attributable not to medical professionals but to the health care technology that serves them and the patients they care for. Any health care institution (hospital, clinic, etc.) you visit uses from 70 to 100 technologies in which your life-saving (or losing) critical data might be contained. They don’t play nicely with each other. They don’t share data. They all live in tech silos because their executives, developers and marketers believe that competition is the best way to make more money (rather than save more lives).
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