"There's really clear evidence, as there has been in the United States for example, that getting a good laboratorysystem together that can actually report this data directly to the clinicians can really impact on the accuracy, the timeliness and the use of that data."
VOA: standard.2010.02.24
Rather than undertaking a major push, firms seem content to re-use previous technology investments while trying to improve the timeliness and quality of the data and improving the integration with other risk management tools.
Recognizing that simply publishing snapshots of government information is not enough to make it open, we need to improve the quality, accessibility, timeliness, and usability of our data and content through well-defined standards that include the use of machine-readable formats such as web APIs and common metadata tagging schemas.