In Allan Holmes's Tech Insider blog over at Government Executive magazine, he quotes part of the testimony of John Glaser, vice president and CIO for Partners Healthcare in Boston given at Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs regarding how easy it is to share electronic health records (EHRs). When Glaser was asked what the private sector experience was with sharing EHRs at the scale of what the VA and Defense are trying to do, he said:
"A common EHR? That's interesting to me. That's a codeword for, 'You got to be kidding me.'"
This was undoubtedly a splash of cold water on those Senators who think creating inter-operable EHRs is just a matter of a few lines of software code.
