The Power of Electronic Health Records
The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, talks about the power of Electronic Health Records (EHR).
The Power of Electronic Health Records
FARZAD MOSTASHARI: The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, put in place incentives for doctors and hospitals to help them make the investment in Electronic Health Records and it made a very important distinction: it said it's not about the technology, it's how you use the technology to improve care. And that really has set the framework for everything that we've done. And it has moved health care in a direction that isn't just about more technology it's about using that technology in a way that's going to be meaningful to patients.
To give you one example, in Cleveland as part of a community improvement project they looked at the care that patients with diabetes received, the basic stuff that any person with diabetes should be getting. They should be getting the pneumonia vaccination, blood sugar checked, their eyes examined.
How often to people get all of those basic standards of care met? In a paper-based world it happens about seven percent of the time.
With an Electronic Health Record, care that's delivered gets you the right care fifty-one percent of the time - that's not enough; we need to do better - but it's seven-fold more common to get all the right care with an Electronic Health Record.
And here's the most amazing point: the care of those individuals with Electronic Health Records was improving faster than those still on paper records. Back in 2009, only about one in every five physicians used even a basic Electronic Health Record system. Within one year of the passage of HITECH, it went from twenty to thirty percent; the next year forty percent; next year, I predict boldly, we'll be over fifty percent.
So within a very short time frame, just a span of a few years, we will have gone from Electronic Health Record's being something that was used in these benchmark institutions like the Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger, to something that is now commonplace in my - and your - primary care providers.
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