VistA is an example of where things could go... Because it is the standard for all VA medical sites, it begins to use an economy of scale... The problem is not everyone likes VistA, but if you had a universal mobile medical record format, you could import or export you record between a system like VistA and another such as Nextgen or HARMONY.
My personal feeling is CPT billing codes (which aren't free to use) needs to be replaced with something like HL7 before this will happen...
The thing most people don't realize is going digital does NOT necessarily save money or time for the local staff, but it does force conformity that lessens the chance of a misunderstanding or a lack of information when sharing a health record. It can also make tracking who has had access to your information more or less automatic.
If set up correctly:
The big advantage will be to large medical facilities where mutiple staff can access the same medical record from different locations doing different functions at the same time... The main advantage to small practices will be the ability to bill insurance companies faster, as procedures performed will already be in in the record in a standard form... Insurance companies will see less fraud...
Of cource, this is a big "if"...
The key will be defining the "mobile" medical record format... It really doesn't matter what form the data in local databases takes, as long as the local databases can import and export the yet to be defined "standard", as opposed to the mutiple, often conflicting standards already out... Until a single standard is selected and followed, most advantages just won't exist.
Fortunately, comedy is one of the better ways of commentary our Free Speech system has... shows like Saterday Night Live were pretty quick to point out all the problems in reporting, along with the exagerated, but generally true problems with all the canidates...
Ever notice when you want to buy a house, you can't get a copy of the Covenants of the local Home Owners' Association until closing? (At least in my area.) If a local community can keep it's "laws" private via a copyright, why can't a state? I think it's wrong, but I can see the logic.
We use them more for optimizing code than anything else... The biggest problem we see is that there are often false positives... A senior person can easily look at recomendations and pick whats needed... A junior person, not so much, which we learned the hard way...
I've used laptops as a second monitor using MaxiVista (www.maxivista.com) Its not too good for high motion screens, but great for have the web on one screen and Word on another...
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VistA is an example of where things could go... Because it is the standard for all VA medical sites, it begins to use an economy of scale... The problem is not everyone likes VistA, but if you had a universal mobile medical record format, you could import or export you record between a system like VistA and another such as Nextgen or HARMONY. My personal feeling is CPT billing codes (which aren't free to use) needs to be replaced with something like HL7 before this will happen...
The thing most people don't realize is going digital does NOT necessarily save money or time for the local staff, but it does force conformity that lessens the chance of a misunderstanding or a lack of information when sharing a health record. It can also make tracking who has had access to your information more or less automatic. If set up correctly: The big advantage will be to large medical facilities where mutiple staff can access the same medical record from different locations doing different functions at the same time... The main advantage to small practices will be the ability to bill insurance companies faster, as procedures performed will already be in in the record in a standard form... Insurance companies will see less fraud... Of cource, this is a big "if"... The key will be defining the "mobile" medical record format... It really doesn't matter what form the data in local databases takes, as long as the local databases can import and export the yet to be defined "standard", as opposed to the mutiple, often conflicting standards already out... Until a single standard is selected and followed, most advantages just won't exist.
DC Comics would be proud... ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_(DC_Comics)
Fortunately, comedy is one of the better ways of commentary our Free Speech system has... shows like Saterday Night Live were pretty quick to point out all the problems in reporting, along with the exagerated, but generally true problems with all the canidates...
Ever notice when you want to buy a house, you can't get a copy of the Covenants of the local Home Owners' Association until closing? (At least in my area.) If a local community can keep it's "laws" private via a copyright, why can't a state? I think it's wrong, but I can see the logic.
We use them more for optimizing code than anything else... The biggest problem we see is that there are often false positives... A senior person can easily look at recomendations and pick whats needed... A junior person, not so much, which we learned the hard way...
I've used laptops as a second monitor using MaxiVista (www.maxivista.com) Its not too good for high motion screens, but great for have the web on one screen and Word on another...