Healthcare IT News August 9, 2017
John Glaser

The veteran executive proposes a multi-pronged approach to ending the tyranny of wasted time and effort created by today’s technologies.

The HITECH Act resulted in near universal adoption of electronic health records (96 percent in hospitals and nine out of ten physician offices, according to the latest ONC tally) and having all that clinical information in electronic form is a remarkable advance.

It enables a wide range of possibilities for improving care, assessing its value, and managing populations in ways that might actually improve our collective health and reduce the overall healthcare bill. On the most basic level, caregivers should have an easier time getting up to speed on each patient’s history and current condition than in the old days...

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