How Israel Turned Decades Of Medical Data Into Digital Health Gold

All over the world, healthcare systems are struggling to provide the service their patients demand while also working within the legal and budgetary constraints set by governments or other institutions like insurance companies and hospitals. Digitization of medical records and new medical technologies have yet to touch large swathes of the world's medical institutions. In many countries, because of differences in the way records are kept, healthcare services and organizations are unable to "talk" to each other and cannot share data. That makes for inefficiency; if data cannot be shared between institutions, things as basic as blood tests need to be repeated each time a patient goes to a different doctor or institution. Israel's health care system, although consistently highly rated in international surveys, suffers from the same infrastructure issues: hospitals can be overcrowded, and non-critical patients sometimes wait for operations.