“I have a vested interest in better health informatics at the primary care level, both because I am a patient and because of my consulting relationship with Cielo Medsolutions LLC. In the current political environment, with its emphasis on throwing money at the problem, I fear for the public health. Bad health IT is worse than no health IT.
How would I define good health IT at the primary care level? I define it in terms of accuracy and completeness. For your electronic health record (EHR) to be accurate and complete, the information in it must be up-to-date and cover all key facts about the state of your health and the care provided to you. Because many patients have multiple providers, this means that your EHR must be available to all participating care providers, both to read and to update.”
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D. Hunscher, Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios, 4 February 2010
