As long as it's quality medical information FOR patients, not quality
medical information ABOUT patients, that is not specifically authorized.
Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
If HIS were standardized, I could anticipate a "Google" of the future
coming up with fantastic ways of enhancing patient care by optimal
presentation of patient data, i.e. scanning, filtering etc.. Already
Google makes it very easy to look up quality medical information for
patients on the internet.
Kevin
On 2/15/06, Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A Pill, a Scalpel, a Database
InformationWeek (02/13/06)No. 1076, P. 38; McGee, Marianne Kolbasuk
Information technology is making strides in three critical areas of
medicine: The filtering and delivery of information to the patient's
bedside, allowing for personalized care; formatting existing data to obtain
a richer, more helpful picture of the patient's condition; and the use of
analytics to integrate data that yields new insights. IBM Healthcare and
Life Sciences' Brett Davis says the interim between the discovery of new
medical breakthroughs and their standard application--which can take as long
as 17 years--is decreasing thanks to the use of IT and other new tools for
research and collaboration. In addition to helping enable more customized
patient treatments, health-care IT can cut the time and cost of testing new
drugs and improve the development of safer, more targeted drugs via data
mining and analysis. Analytic, pattern-recognition, and decision-support
software can examine data from countless sources, and they could emerge as
some of the most critical health-care tools. But delivering more timely and
customized bedside care requires a national infrastructure for electronic
health data that facilitates the exchange of standardized medical records,
which President Bush flagged as a national goal to be realized by 2014. "The
key tipping point will be in getting the national health IT infrastructure
in place," notes Davis. Other challenges include the increasingly pressing
issues of security, privacy, and ethical data usage as more and more
health-care information becomes electronically accessible. Progress can also
be hindered by hesitancy among some researchers to share information.
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