Can we have an organic and evolutionary EHR?
17 March, 2010
Sam Heard has written a paper about the possibility of developing a general practice based shared electronic health record:
"The axiom “Information is power” probably drives much of the scramble for ownership of the new shared electronic health record. Governments around the world want to be recognised for realising the benefits. The promise of this technology includes less healthcare accidents, less repeated steps in care, less investigations, more appropriate treatment, more accountability and so on. There is clearly a perceived commercial opportunity too as telcos, insurance companies, pharmacies and companies like IBM, Microsoft, and Google also want in. But let’s consider some of the barriers, because these are considerable..."
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His conclusion: A general practice based shared electronic health record would simplify things a great deal and start with key players who are doing this already – the people and their general practitioners.
Organic and evolutionary electronic health records - Dr Sam Heard
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