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- Today's healthcare information is paper-based, fragmented, and trapped
within closed systems.
- Paperwork is 20-25% of total healthcare costs.
- Nurses spend over 40% of their time on paperwork.
- 15-20% of diagnostic tests are performed because records of prior tests
are unavailable.
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- Administrative costs account for almost a third of total health care
spending ($400 Billion).
- A health care transaction costs as much as $25.
- A bank transaction costs less than a penny - by using information
technology.
- Reducing health care administrative costs to that of other industries
would save enough to finance universal health care several times over.
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- Physician time spent on paperwork: 38%
- Nurse time spent on paperwork: 50%
- Charts missing: 30% of encounters
- Tests duplicated: 11% because results lost
- Cost to find and file a chart: $5-$25
- Cost of transcription: > $10,000/yr/MD
- Paper forms to fill in: > 20,000/yr/MD
- Errors: illegible prescriptions, miscommunication with patients,
incomplete data for consultants
- Privacy risks: no audit trail of accesses, entire chart copied on
request
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- Clinician transition from:
- “Omniscient” data source to data processor and decision maker
- Physical presence to virtual presence
- Interdisciplinary team expanding:
- Informed patient
- Information resources
- Healthcare transitioning from:
- Treating illness to promoting wellness and preventing illness
- Treatment specialized by functional area to patient-centered,
population-based disease management
- Pressing Emphasis on Emergency Response
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- Consumer
- educators
- Healthcare providers
- hospital, clinics, labs
- First responders
- Clinicians
- Payers
- Government
- Employers
- Insurance companies
- Employers
- Community
- Vendors/suppliers
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