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New U.S. National Coordinator Aims to Change System Largely Devoid of Electronic Record Keeping.
Colleagues,
As reported in MIT Tech Review ... According to findings, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, about 8 % of U.S. hospitals use basic EHR systems--which include patient demographics, medical complaints, medications, and some test results--in at least one department. Only about a quarter of those are using comprehensive EHR systems, including so-called decision support systems, which assist physicians and other health-care providers in making treatment decisions, for example, reminding them to prescribe pre-operative antibiotics.
... the study, headed by David Blumenthal, President Obama's newly appointed national coordinator for health information technology, says that the $19 billion in funding for health-care information technology and other provisions outlined in the new stimulus bill will directly address the two major hurdles to adoption--the cost to implement and maintain the records, and the difficulty of exchanging information among various health-care providers' differing computer systems.
Read on at: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22346/?nlid=1890
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in MIT Tech Review ... According to findings, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, about 8 % of U.S. hospitals use basic EHR systems--which include patient demographics, medical complaints, medications, and some test results--in at least one department. Only about a quarter of those are using comprehensive EHR systems, including so-called decision support systems, which assist physicians and other health-care providers in making treatment decisions, for example, reminding them to prescribe pre-operative antibiotics.
... the study, headed by David Blumenthal, President Obama's newly appointed national coordinator for health information technology, says that the $19 billion in funding for health-care information technology and other provisions outlined in the new stimulus bill will directly address the two major hurdles to adoption--the cost to implement and maintain the records, and the difficulty of exchanging information among various health-care providers' differing computer systems.
Read on at: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22346/?nlid=1890
ENJOY!
CC
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