A Brief & Opinionated History of Healthcare Standards

Just a bunch of pipes and curly brackets

Porting over old content with only slight grammar updates. Originally posted to Redox here in January 2019. Worth checking out, because the graphics are way better there. The magic of data exchange, visualized. Healthcare information technology is a mess of acronyms. As we approach the New Year, it's fairly common to look back on the year and do a retrospective. I thought it might be fun to do a little time traveling (unfortunately sans hot tub) further and take us back into the dark and dirty history of some of the core standards we at Redox use and love every day. Note: René Spronk over…

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