A great visual for healthcare IT interoperability

Bart Collet posted a comment to Dr. Rowley’s recent guest article on interoperability – he said the following diagram is a great way to show how inflexible many healthcare IT systems are these days:

I love the picture, thanks Bart.

Too many of our healthcare IT systems look like the device on the bottom – to make matters worse, many vendors don’t even have the three button Bart has in his photo.