Dissolving the Data Silos in Health Care

A revolutionary future for health care: "Technology analysts refer to the elements of [information] system]like this as “data silos”—each data set stored by itself, never touching the others. Over the past few decades, many industries have started breaking data out of their bunkers and using powerful computers to cross-index them, revealing previously unsuspected patterns. In health care, however, data isolation is still the norm. The capabilities for much more expansive integrated electronic information are available to health care, as reported in this article in The Atlantic.