medical records
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Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.
The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.
And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.
There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records...
Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.
With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.