Old Problems Still Plague Electronic Health Record Industry Despite Advances In Technology
In my experience, most hospitals, doctors’ offices and health care providers are still unable to operate in a record-keeping system where a patient’s entire medical history can be viewed, shared and stored with the patient as the primary access point. Recent estimates show interoperability issues between current electronic medical health record platforms cost U.S. hospitals more than $30 billion annually, and issues caused by delayed or missing records result in misdiagnoses and other errors that cause more than $750 billion in annual losses....