What are the problems OpenHIE is seeking to address?
Health care team's view of the patient has become fragmented into disconnected facts and clusters of information and is distributed amongst a broad assortment of healthcare personnel with specific, limited interactions with an individual patient and differing vantage points into their health.
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OpenHIE operates according to principles of openness, transparency and sharing of ideas, software and strategies for deployment and use. Our approach is founded on the principle that those who use the health information must aid in the development of their information systems.
Refer to the OpenHIE IntroductionBackground for further details.