07/14/2015
https://congress.gov...
"This Cures Initiative is in part focused on using technology to relieve administrative burdens for agencies such as FDA."
"We have electronic health records that can be shared among various providers to help better coordinate the care we receive, if we can ensure they are interoperable."
"The question before us: How do we ensure that our health care system can take advantage of the innovation going on in the tech world?"
"if the June 2014 Rand report is true, we have been subsidizing systems that block information instead of allowing for information transfers, which was never the intent of the statute."