Doctors Want to Know, Why the Government is Pushing Electronic Health Records?

ESTABLISHMENT – There is established within the Department of Health and Human Services an Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Purpose - The National Coordinator shall perform the duties under subsection (c): in a manner consistent with the development of a nationwide health information technology infrastructure that allows for the electronic use and exchange of information.

Governments Top Ten Reasons

(1) Ensures that each patient’s health information is secure and protected, in accordance with applicable law;
(2) Improves health care quality, reduces medical errors, reduces health disparities, and advances the delivery of patient-centered medical care.
(3) Reduces health care costs resulting from inefficiency medical errors, inappropriate care, duplicative care, and incomplete information.
(4) Provides appropriate information to help guide medical decisions at the time and place of care;
(5) Ensures the inclusion of meaningful public input in such development of such infrastructure;
(6) Improves the coordination of care and information among hospitals, laboratories, physician offices, and other entities through an effective infrastructure for the secure and authorized exchange of health care information;
(7) Improves public health activities and facilitates the early identification and rapid response to public health threats and emergencies, including bio terror events and infectious disease outbreaks.
(8) Facilitates health and clinical research and health care quality;
(9) Promotes early detection, prevention, and management of chronic diseases;
(10) promotes a more effective marketplace, greater competition, greater systems analysis, increased consumer choice, and improved outcomes in health care services and improves efforts to reduce health disparities.

EHR Doctors, Inc is working to Promote, facilitate, and support, the development of health information exchange systems which provide inter-operability among health care providers. EHR Doctors, Inc uses a (CCHIT) certified electronic health record software, including a fully informed electronic prescribing functionality.

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