The economy has learned some hard lessons over the last decade, when the need to obtain business-critical data. Words like "redundancy" and "continuity" are the words of the Clock Information Technology professional and CFO of the company. The time to make the computer every day and every hour of back-up is no longer seen as waste but as a good investment. Where once the sales of computers were people to discuss the benefits of off-site storage, timeCorporate customers demand services such as compatibility.
Companies in the health field has learned his lesson, but for reasons that extend those of us that the system every day, this level of security and redundancy, are not the critical data of the health system, with the patient records are inexplicable. To be sure, electronic health records provide a high level of security and data redundancy, like their predecessors of paper, but the type of data storage duelAudits, which are suitable for most activities, there is critical information for the medical care. In the office of the disaster, we learned that if a system is in motion, is bound to fail, is not at its weakest link.
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine released a report titled "To err is human, and started the national debate on patient safety. The Institute of Medicine report on a number of areas, among which were the errors medication and surgery of the wrong site. NowEight years later, and dozens of regulations, the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) noted that the CEO is wrong site surgery has decreased, has increased.
Unfortunately, health professionals, despite all efforts, not the systems that provide their safety in the clinic. Few people have the memory of the comprehensive and detailed plan of treatment for each patient in the care can be. Medical records exist to ensure thatcritical information at your fingertips of nurses. The problem with the medical technology today is a century old, on paper. The risk of medical error or complication increases if the medical records are incomplete or absent. Legible handwriting or failure to refer to add drugs to fundamental incompatibility only in situations of danger.
Would be your money to a bank that always has your financial information in a register dusty manuscript? Want to Ridean airplane, where the captain navigated with a sextant and map of paper?
The technology is coming to the aid of the patient in the office of the doctor and the hospital. Kevin Freking, Associated Press recently reported the first major corporate sponsorship of portable electronic health records. Applied Materials, BP America, Inc., Intel Corp., Pitney Bowes and Wal-Mart workers to register in a central database for keeping health records in an effort to eliminateAvoid duplication, information gaps and errors.
This is a concept that President Bush and the National Academy of Science is supported - Institute of Medicine. Not only with the medical record system to collect information and report to a central repository, but the individual can improve personal and family information for the record. This type of system is determined by the White House as a national standard, introduced in 2014 and is a prerequisite for the implementation of mediaSuppliers to the year 2008. The problem with this database on-line repository is that Internet-dependent, and only accessible from an Internet portal, is not really mobile. Can not contain around her hand.
How then can the medical record validation to take place occur in every patient, especially when patients go from doctor to doctor, but because of their illness, their job or their insurance coverage necessary?
What happens when this important fact, if placed in a watch,pendant or bracelet to wear to keep out?
What if every time your electronic medical record is being read, the data that has been contributed and the differences require that your health care provider to reconcile the information in the comparison?
W. David Stephenson Stevenson strategies invented by the suggestion that people take their medical data on secure U3-enabled USB flash drive. According to Mr. Stephenson:
"This sounds like a real win-win technology, guided mineSweet Spot and a disaster, a figurative and literal life-saver, because it was not only your medical records in hand, but also all the applications and files. "
With the decline in the cost of computer memory and USB Flash Drives, the first 1 Gigabyte Portable Health Record (PHR) bracelet on the market. A personal health record is a software / hardware solution used to store personal information, insurance dataMedical records and medical images. In the case of an emergency visit or even a routine physical, health professionals is the key into the USB port of a compatible computer. With a personal best of health, medical information available, where you and your healthcare providers need it.
Currently there are 25 companies that sell solutions Personal Health Record. Although all 25 companies to maintain password protection for the user interface, only one of encryption systems used to protect data files from direct access by other software. Encryption is an important feature for a Personal Health Record.
Also needed is the ability to ensure that the patient does not accidentally or intentionally, the records, especially if you record includes notes from medical professionals, as well as many of the systems. Another interesting feature is the ability to synchronize with the Electronic Medical> Record (EMR), at the office of the doctor. With this type of synchronization features, a centralized repository serves not only as a primary source of data, but an ideal back-up for the data cable.
Looking for when selecting a Personal Health Record:
* The information for emergencies, the screen will appear immediately if the PHR is activated
* Password protection with encryption for information stored on the PHR
* Image import and storage of x-ray, ECG andPersonal Documents
* Memory for an emergency contact number (including local contacts and employers)
* Memory for all your insurance information (medical, dental, travel, automotive, commercial, liability, worker's compensation claims, etc.)
* The lists of their primary and specialist physicians
* List of current medications and past
* Lists of allergies and reactions
* Lists of hospitalization, surgery, Past and Current MedicalTerms
* Magazines, where doctors, nurses, and you can record notes for future reference
Synchronization with the main computer and a data repository online
* Synchronization with Electronic Medical Records in the doctor's office or hospital
* Ensure the monitoring of changes to the integrity of data
* USB disk capacity of 1 GB or more
Over the next seven years, which is all in health care of the need for regulation and to convert itsCenturies of old paper on modern electronic health record. Using medical records for mobile data validation is the next logical step in this development.
What a wonderful fusion of form and function, which now can save your life!
