Why Has It Taken Us So Long to Adopt Electronic Medical Records? (1:04)
The healthcare industry is behind most others in terms of digital technology adoption, which affects diagnosis and treatment due to lack of real-time records. HealthMaker Bettina Experton, MD, MPH explains how this issue affects everyone in this vide
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Yes, it is extremely surprising that as care is lagging compared to any other industry in terms of digitalizing this critical information, which is about saving lives, avoiding medical errors. There was a study done by GOM, by Institute of Medicine published last September in 2012, which says that 30% of the healthcare dollars we spend is wasted, and cost millions of medical errors and upto 100,000 deaths in a given year.
And in those eras and those days are mainly caused by the fact that the upto date information about the given patient is not verifiable when a physician is about to make a diagnosis or prescribe a treatment, and a lot of that could be avoided, indeed if information could be accessed in real time at.
Electronic medical records are key to mobile healthcare (mHealh), says Bettina Experton, MD, president and CEO of the health information technology company Humetrix. Smart healthcare consumers will maintain control their medical records.
