Overview
Electronic health records (EHRs) are a major part of the technical infrastructure in our healthcare system.
Commentary
When I worked on healthcare AI problems, parsing and interpreting EHRs was a common task, and it’s not as straightforward as it sounds. The proliferation of software vendors in the healthcare space often means that there are significant hurdles to clean and efficient communication of EHR data between clinics and researchers. In fact, one of the major healthcare policy goals of the Obama administration was to improve the interoperability of EHR records, which unfortunately did not succeed.