Hospital data barter pushed to lower costs

Three area hospitals and a Silicon Valley consortium are forming a data exchange that could eventually lower costs for local health care providers.

[Bob Meyer]

Another example of "using what one has to get what one desires." It certainly makes sense to exchange such information. Anyone who has had some health challenges,(where they've been in and out of hospitals) will testify to the incredible waste of time in filling out the same forms --at the same hospital--because an online database doesn't yet exist. As the publisher of BarterNews for 27 years I see the enormous value of exchange in so many industries. It's great to hear of this effort.