How Interoperability Stands Between You and Your Medical Records

When you switch doctors or get a second opinion, your medical records often don't follow you — or they arrive as a 300-page PDF you have to re-enter manually. This episode of Healthtech Talks with Fexingo drills into the frustrating, expensive, and sometimes dangerous problem of health data interoperability. Lucas and Luna unpack why the US healthcare system still runs on fax machines in 2024, how the 21st Century Cures Act tried to mandate open APIs, and why companies like Epic and Cerner have been slow to share. They highlight a concrete win: the CommonWell Health Alliance, a nonprofit data-sharing network that now connects over 30,000 healthcare facilities. But they also ask: why is sharing your own health data still harder than sharing a Google Doc? And what would it take to finally fix it? #HealthDataInteroperability #EpicSystems #Cerner #CommonWellHealthAlliance #21stCenturyCuresAct #FHIR #PatientAccess #HealthcareIT #DigitalHealth #MedicalRecords #HealthcareTech #DataSharing #Interoperability #FaxMachineHealthcare #HealthtechTalks #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #HealthcareInnovation Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo