healthcare.digital February 16, 2018
The contrast between the recent hurricanes in Texas and Florida is illustrative of the progress made in health IT in the past decade or so. In 2005, there were huge losses of patient data after Hurricane Katrina, because the information was available only on paper. However, because of advocacy from the health IT community and partly in reaction to that disaster, the 2009 HITECH Act provided more than $32bn in funding that drove electronic medical record (EMR) adoption. Today, virtually every hospital and most practices are using them.
Fast forward to Hurricane Harvey. In Houston most hospitals stayed in operation. If you were a patient your data was likely accessible if you were at a care setting you had previously...
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