Expert pushes investing in health IT to improve healthcare system
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, November 12, 2008
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In a recent posting on The Health Care Blog, David Kibbe, MD, MBA, a proponent of adopting healthcare information technology (HIT) over the last five years, is urging physicians and hospitals to move forward by embracing more than electronic medical records (EMR) as a way of making HIT a part of patient care. Instead, he says, hospitals and physicians need to move forward and use HIT in a collaborative way, involving patients more with their care and making patients' information able to be communicated across many health systems. This means that vendors should no longer drive how an EMR functions, he says. HIT systems should be designed to function in ways that involve patients more in their care, lower costs, and make providing care easier, he says.
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