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As technology consumers, we have come to expect a high level of functionality on the computerized systems we have come to depend on for our everyday tasks such as banking, tracking of parcels, and airline ticketing. Unfortunately, that same functionality that is typified by those systems does not extend into healthcare, which is often hobbled by technical problems such as fragmented source databases.

This is especially true of larger healthcare systems and Ac-ademic hospitals, where there is a general lack of integration between these multiple unique source databases. Indeed, most databases were built on legacy systems that are not designed to integrate with other software systems. While this lack of integration was initially the result of project-driven systems, the problem of" database silos" has remained, and continues largely because of commercial interests.