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Major Barriers
- Very little use of EMRs among physicians
- Wide variety of non-interoperable software systems
- Widely ranging interpretations of HIPAA
- Varying policies on outside access to medical records complicates interoperability among stakeholders
- Obtaining patient consents, re-consents, authorizations of release is cumbersome
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