“At long last, the health industry in slowly adopting technology on a large scale, moving to electronic documents, computer generated prescriptions, and information sharing. It’s been a rough road as standards and privacy issues have to be grappled with beyond the sheer technical problems. But the trade-offs in efficiency, accuracy and data gathering will be well worth the struggle. Mobile technology will play an increasing role in both institutional and personal health care advances.
An example of the convergence of data and mobile applications is the recent release of an iPad app for health practitioners by Practice Fusion, a leader in electronic health records. The app allows doctors instant access to patient records in a secure environment from wherever they are as long as they are connected to the Internet.”
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Bob Morse, Times-Standard, 26 November 2011
