Doctors Join to Promote Electronic Record Keeping - New York Times

Doctors Join to Promote Electronic Record Keeping - New York Times

Now, though, in a collaboration with 500 like-minded doctors, as well as hospitals, insurers and employers in two Hudson Valley counties, Dr. Heslin and his partners are clearing barriers that have made modern information technology inaccessible to the hundreds of thousands of small doctors’ offices around the nation.

It is interesting to watch the emegergence of Electronic Medical Records. From a Digital Stakeholder perspective it seems to be follwing the adoption of EDI, except much faster. In the early days of EDI only big companies could take advantage of the technology. But as time progressed and the internet was incorporated it soon extended to small and medium businesses. Now EMR is doing the same thing. To trule be useful as much as possible needs to be electronic. If doctors and health care providers continue to use both paper and electronic there will be very litte advantage seen.

19 September, 2005 |

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