This article is about digitalizing medical records, which I agree with. It uses Dennis Saver and his practices an example of how good digitalizing records is. Saver was able to get rid of thousands of of manila folders and cut his record staff (hopefully they got better jobs). He is able to call up prescriptions, test results and oodles of other information that are saved in his computer. Normally, a doctor would have to have to go look for that information or have someone on hand (on the payroll, presumably) to go fetch that bit of information for him. That time could be spent with the patient. Time saved is money saved.
Obama wants this done with every doctor's office. This would practically eliminate mistakes and it would save money in the record department. It would eliminate mistakes by taking out bad handwriting out the process and misplaced x-rays. If a picture or test result is misplaced, the whole procedure or test needs to be done again. If everything was digitalized, everything would be saved on a computer and backed up. Obama plans to have this by the end of the year but that is unlikely because of everything else that is going on. The amount this will cost is 19 billion dollars. There are many questions like who should be able to see the records and what they should look like.
I really like when they compared this system with auto repair.
I liked this article and it showed where the the healthcare industry needs improvement.
