content: This and let us not forget this massive ever moving bar that drives the constant EMR switches and the political hot seat playing musical chairs with your personal data on the state, local, and federal level..  All that leaves is a long line of legacy systems, HL7 interfaces, and broken promises.  Any one medium sized hospital can be the host of literally hundreds of applications designed to accept, parse, and regurgitate your personal data and almost all of them are in some zombie state of half life.