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When it comes to electronic health records, “the switch to cloud is inevitable.” That’s according to Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in the Obama administration, who spoke at a “Health Care, the Cloud, and Privacy” panel hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, Patient Privacy Rights.
Electronic health records are exactly what they sound like: A collection of health information in digital format that can include a wide range of data, from intimate details of your medical history and test results to demographic data to your billing information. Digital records are superior to physical ones because they can be transferred quickly when patients switch providers, help doctors get a complete picture of patient health, eliminate the need for redundant testing, and provide new opportunities for analyzing treatments for efficiency and effectiveness.
They are also supposed to be a cost saver. Some estimates have put the potential cost savings for switching over to electronic records as high as $81 billion annually, although the real world implementation hasn’t come...
Electronic health records are exactly what they sound like: A collection of health information in digital format that can include a wide range of data, from intimate details of your medical history and test results to demographic data to your billing information. Digital records are superior to physical ones because they can be transferred quickly when patients switch providers, help doctors get a complete picture of patient health, eliminate the need for redundant testing, and provide new opportunities for analyzing treatments for efficiency and effectiveness.
They are also supposed to be a cost saver. Some estimates have put the potential cost savings for switching over to electronic records as high as $81 billion annually, although the real world implementation hasn’t come...