We can travel almost anywhere in the world and find a machinethat will dispense local currency, taking the money from ourhome account with the use of a bank card. Yet, when we go froma primary care physician to a specialist in our home town, wemust begin at square one, providing the new doctor's officewith all our demographic and medical information, often by completingpaper forms. If we were traveling abroad and needed access toour health information, we would face formidable difficulties.Financial institutions have for years developed and used standardsfor the electronic exchange . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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