Op-ed: Healthcare lags behind banks, hotels in IT
Medical technology has evolved leaps and bounds in recent years, but obstales remain in healthcare's hardnessing of information technology. In a recent report in Forbes, the current methods of data collection and analyzation are a decade behind what hotels and banks are using.
Richard Bakalar, MD, and Ashraf Shehata, of KPMG, argue the collection of data in treating patients has remained in the Stone Age, of sorts. Difficulties in uptake has led to obstacles for clinicians to providing giving quality care. For example, electronic health records (EHRs), meant to cut appointment times, are now taking up as much time as providing actual care.
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