The Silo Tax
Healthcare data lives behind walls by design. The walls were designed for protection, and that is not inherently a bad thing. Protecting personal health information is sacrosanct and should be built into every system by default. There are also the walls and moats around the data that the public is less familiar with. These legacy protections are an unruly hybrid of happenstance and design, fortified so long ago that you can barely see where the walls are. Like the castle of the evil Queen in...
