
510 | CHAPTER 29 Emerging Technologies and the Generation of Knowledge
the lure of the World Wide Web. The increased popularity of electronic data in-
terchange (EDI) with its ability to reduce human errors, forever altered the finan-
cial aspect of health care. Carrying through to the early 21st century, this trend has
continued with pledges to “computerize the nation’s health records in five years,
saving billions of dollars in healthcare costs and countless lives” (The White
House, 2009). Regionalism and interoperability are now the buzzwords for
healthcare informatics in the United States and increasingly abroad. Denmark has
provided a health portal ...