SureScripts a company based in Minnesota is working with various organizations to create the largest e-prescribing network. These organizations include pharmacies, pharmacy technology vendors and software companies who supply electronic health records. This e-prescribing network is having a positive impact on the medical community. This e-prescribing system is making the prescribing work-flow more efficient for both physicians and patients. It is helping to reduce medication errors as well saving time and money.
I was drawn to this article because I was interested in seeing how software is being used to improve health care in the United States. It is encouraging to see information technology being used to improve the efficiency and security of information in health care.
Do you think health care in the United States is trailing behind other industries in terms of the use of information technology?
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I was drawn to this article because I was interested in seeing how software is being used to improve health care in the United States. It is encouraging to see information technology being used to improve the efficiency and security of information in health care.
Do you think health care in the United States is trailing behind other industries in terms of the use of information technology?
Article: http://www.lexisnexis.com.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/hottopics/lnacademic/?
I don't know if it's trailing, but I know it's being used more. For example, when you go to the doctor now they have all your records and info on a computer in the room instead of the old way of having papers and folders. Also, doctors can prescribe medicine on the computer and the pharmacy gets it immediately which is pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteI recently had read an article on this as well. I think that it is moving slower than other industries because many people are wary about having their information stored on a network rather than secured in a paper file. However, I do think it is time to advance our medical filing/prescribing technology.
ReplyDeleteIt is good to see technology being put to good use in new industries, but it does worry me if having all the information in a computer database could be problematic if computer systems were to crash and there was no way to access personal records.
ReplyDeleteI remember going to a medical lecture last spring about electronic filing. Its not that dangerous actually, currently Taiwan is the leader in that technology. They have a card, a little bigger than the size of a credit card that stores all your information. The card is key encoded and you are the one that holds it, at least the master key card, the physician holds records of your visits with them.
ReplyDeleteWith the technology you can centralize all your medical records, even imaging in your card, and you can have the choice of backing it all up to hard copies.
I'm pretty sure that with this new technology, hospitals and medical staff will increase their security to be able to read the cards. Hospitals like many other big corporations have back up generators which would kick in instantly, the second they loose power.