“By making medical records available to doctors electronically, anywhere, medical errors and costs would be reduced. It's one way to help fix the broken U.S. health care system.”
-- Kentucky Lt. Governor Daniel Mongiardo, MD
Forum with Lt. Gov. tackles health care ‘crisis’
Community Press, Cincinnati, OH
October 21, 2008
“Bringing patient records into the computer age, experts say, is crucial to improving care, reducing errors and containing costs in the American health system.”
-- The New York Times
“Most Doctors Aren’t Using Electronic Health
Records”
June 19, 2008
“We know e-prescribing is an efficient way to improve health care delivery, decrease medication errors, and prevent potentially dangerous drug interactions.”
-- Janet Marchibroda, CEO
eHealth Initiative
October 7, 2008
“Most patients have multiple physician encounters with different specialists, who often prescribe different medications and often don’t communicate with each other. The dangers of such a system are well understood. This scenario makes having a common EHR that can be shared throughout the healthcare system a real imperative to providing excellent quality and safe care to those patients.”
-- Robert Schwartz, MD
Professor & Chair
Department of Family Medicine and
Community Health
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
December 2008
"Electronic medical records offer numerous advantages over paper records which are sometimes illegible and very often not where the patient is when he or she needs treatment…."
“Electronic records also promote preventive care, improving health and lowering costs….”
-- Science Daily
“Nation's Only Citywide Electronic Health
Information Exchange:
Improving Health And Lowering Costs”
October 15, 2008
“Electronic health records have the potential to improve the delivery of health care services. However, in the United States, physicians have been slow to adopt such systems.”
-- The New England Journal of Medicine
“Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care –
A National Survey of Physicians”
July 3, 2008