What if the Healthcare System Was More Like Your Smartphone?
Patients will find it easier to access their medical test results and talk with their doctors under a new agreement between healthcare companies and the Obama Administration.
Patients will find it easier to access their medical test results and communicate with their doctors under a new agreement reached between healthcare companies and the Obama Administration. The agreement was reached with health technology companies that provide 90 percent of the electronic health records to U.S. hospitals and the biggest private healthcare systems. One of those technology firms is Premier(PINC), a health improvement company that seeks to improve efficiencies and lower costs at health care providers. ‘This starts to put data in standard places with a standard way of being able to access it,’ explained Susan DeVore, CEO of Premier. TheStreet’s Rhonda Schaffler in New York.
