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Posted: Sunday, 10 May 2009 1:10PM
The Benefits of Electronic Medical Records
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by KYW’s Matt Leon
There is more and more discussion about the prospect of electronic medical records becoming reality here in the US.
The Economic Stimulus Act signed by the President earlier this year included $20 billion to healthcare IT and President Obama has announced aspirations for every American to have an electronic health record by the year 2014.
Dr. James Pierce, chair of the bioinformatics and computer science department at the University of the Sciences talks about some of the challenges of making this a reality:
“Well one of the challenges is inter-operability. The idea that you have these different systems out there that many for profit companies are pushing. Many different healthcare systems have already adopted different software platforms and programs that they are using. But one of the real challenges is to get all these things to talk to each other.”
Dr. Pierce adds that preserving patient privacy must be a key of any plan to develop universal electronic medical records.
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