Improving the Quality of Patient Care with Technology
I know a lot of folks here at Dell believe technology can make a real impact in health care by improving the quality and efficiency of patient care. It’s estimated that in one year avoidable medical errors led to 98000 deaths—more than from AIDS, homicides, and car crashes combined. Initiatives like electronic prescriptions and health records can make a tremendous impact on reducing medical errors and streamlining how patient information is recorded, tracked and shared. That’s one reason …
Great interview! Technology solutions for healthcare is definately an issue that needs more coverage
the real area where allscripts and dell can make a change is making physicians, providers, hospitals and healthcare systems implement THAT technology which improves overall quality of care. Once they move from paper to a paperless environment, quality, privacy etc etc automatically comes into play. Again, if online banking is so easy and secure, why cant hcare be? The reason prbbly is coz these docs and physicians are intimidated at the level where real implementation change takes place.