Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Why we need Electronic Health Records (EHR’s) (Newt Gingrich)

EHR Implementation

We need EHRs to save lives.
We need EHRs to prevent needless suffering.
We need EHRs to make our healthcare system affordable.
We need EHRs to help solve the growing physician and nurse shortage
by freeing up medical talent from time consuming administrative tasks.
We need EHRs to return medicine to a system that attracts the best and the brightest young people to the profession.
We need EHRs to create a virtual public health and biosurveillance system. We need EHRs to help accelerate research and discovery.
We need EHRs to help support the establishment of a new system of medical justice.
We need EHRs to make it easier for individuals to learn about and become engaged in their healthcare.
The medical profession needs interoperable EHRs.
You need an EHR to practice the best medicine possible.
You need an EHR to decrease your operational and administrative costs and increase your take-home pay.
You need an EHR to help in the prevention of costly and harmful
medical mistakes.
You need an EHR to help reduce your risk of and defend against
medical malpractice lawsuits.
You need an EHR to optimize your resources and the talent of your team. You need an EHR to compete in the growing transparent consumer¬
driven market system where patients are being incentivized to choose doctors based on quality of care and/ or use of information systems.
You need an EHR to easily demonstrate positive outcomes that qualify you for the increasing number of pay-for-performance program bonuses.
You need an EHR to easily share vital medical information with your patients that will help them to take more responsibility for their care.
You need an EHR to allow you to spend more time doing what you
went into medicine to do─help patients.