An update on taxpayer $38B (!) backdoor electronic medical record subsidies

Brendan Keeler takes a snapshot [image rollup] of Epic Systems’ fhir page:

Epic’s work with FHIR means that any health system, hospital, or clinic that uses Epic’s comprehensive health record system can connect to any app that also supports FHIR to exchange health information, including but not limited to the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability – or USCDI – data classes and elements.

** I know there is much more to this tale than the 38B backdoor federal taxpayer subsidy, [background] but I wonder if we taxpayers have received substantive benefits when compared to the financialization of healthcare….

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