NFL CIO: Tech isn’t the problem with health info sharing
Every one of the 32 NFL teams has 60 players that often receive medical care from hospitals or other facilities they’ve never visited before.
So imagine how difficult it might be to share an electronic medical record (EMR) when you’re a player on the visiting team and you need treatment at an out-of-region facility or specialist.
That’s what the NFL has had to deal with for the past 90-plus years of its existence. While the healthcare industry as a whole is today grappling with interoperability of EMR systems, even within the same hospital system, the NFL has already solved the issue industry-wide.
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