Armedia

There have been a large number of articles published regarding electronic health records.  I wanted to share my thoughts given that this is an area that I believe has a tremendous amount of potential.  This topic is nothing new, it has been discussed, tried, abandoned, and retried a number of times.  Things are different now though in some important ways.  For starters it has a great deal of federal attention, President Obama campaigned on the subject and he has justified it as a big step in helping to improve the economy.  Secondly, the tools needed to facilitate this type of system are a lot more powerful.  Handling large amounts of unstructured data and classifying, tagging, and searching has all become relatively easy. (more…)