Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Digital Medical Records -Is your doctor or hospital ready to fork over the cash to do this?

Recently, a group of hospital executives was surveyed as to the most likely benefit of digital health care, digital health records, electronic medical records, and the most compelling benefit of digitization of health care was patient safety according to these executives.

But , is that enough for these hospitals to invest dollars to make these changes a reality?

Are hospitals listening to their hospital executives?? This author thinks they are .. although slow to pull the trigger, I do think, hospitals "get it" and will "get it" by moving from paper charts to digital paperless hospitals.. it is simply better medicine..

Oh, by the way , did I mention that they may also be motivated b the bottom line as it also helps operational efficiency, reimbursement management, consumer impact, physician recruitment, competive advantages, regulatory compliance and not to mention... revenue growth..

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