Collaboration for health care's sake

It's a struggle for many hospitals and doctors offices to switch from their traditional record keeping methods to the new, shiny electronic health records with is the future of care.  At a recent article at MedCity News looks at how three hospitals are joining forces to create and share electronic health records to benefit both the hospitals and patients. After California's initial efforts to encourage electronic health records failed, the three competing hospitals realized they needed to join forces to save time and money and benefit the patient.  By having one collective medical health record system, the three hospitals can know a patient's background, see how many times they've been to the different hospitals and know about their conditions and previous records at the point of entrance instead of spending hours getting medical history. Nancy Seck, director of the quality management program at Glendale Memorial Hospital, stated "We're receiving money from [The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] for our patients to prevent rehospitalization as a community, not as individual hospitals. The three hospitals ... we all three have different ownerships, so we put aside all that competition concept when it's right for the patients." This fall at ePharma Summit West, Dan Munro, Healthcare IT, Innovation and Policy Contributor, Forbes, will be joining us to discuss the drive to change behavior in healthcare and now everyone involved is responsible fo...
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