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That article, imo, explains exactly why mmr patents are of little value going forward. Faxed images of hundreds, maybe thousands of pages of medical records are just not very usable and anyone developing software today would certainly do it in a way that allows the information to be sorted, structured, searched and queried in a manner quite different from what mmr has patented.

Unfortunately, a PDF file listing your drug history isn’t nearly as useful as an XML or other data driven file that contains each of the elements of your drug history including things like drug name, strength, date prescribed, data filled, etc etc etc. The challenge is not creating a file like this. That’s quite academic. The pain point is communicating to the new system the format of the file that you created so that the receiving system can ingest that file into that software in a proper manner.

There are plenty of more points on why software to software exchange is a challenge. However, we’re going to see more and more software to software exchange in healthcare going forward. We’re literally just at the beginning of this revolution.