Comments on: Help for hospitals switching to electronic health records http://whyy.org/cms/news/health-science/2009/08/25/help-for-hospitals-switching-to-electronic-health-records/15770 News and Information from WHYY in Philadelphia Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:54:03 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Healthcare reform | WHYY News and Information | WHYY http://whyy.org/cms/news/health-science/2009/08/25/help-for-hospitals-switching-to-electronic-health-records/15770/comment-page-1#comment-656 Healthcare reform | WHYY News and Information | WHYY Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:07:47 +0000 http://whyy.org/cms/news/?p=15770#comment-656 [...] Help for hospitals switching to electronic health records Taunya English – August 25, 2009 [...] [...] Help for hospitals switching to electronic health records Taunya English – August 25, 2009 [...]

]]> By: Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson http://whyy.org/cms/news/health-science/2009/08/25/help-for-hospitals-switching-to-electronic-health-records/15770/comment-page-1#comment-548 Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:12:28 +0000 http://whyy.org/cms/news/?p=15770#comment-548 Are we building a health IT Tower of Babel? Overlooked in most of the electronic health records discussion is the potential for population-level analysis -- finding healthcare patterns and measuring quality and improvement over time. Only if systems work together via data exchanges or other data pooling can we get the most out of our EHR investment. More insights -- http://www.healthcaretownhall.com/?cat=3 Are we building a health IT Tower of Babel?

Overlooked in most of the electronic health records discussion is the potential for population-level analysis — finding healthcare patterns and measuring quality and improvement over time. Only if systems work together via data exchanges or other data pooling can we get the most out of our EHR investment. More insights — http://www.healthcaretownhall.com/?cat=3

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