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…)
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