The Dark Report offers a chance to download its recently published free white paper, “Closing The Medical Data Gap: Using IT To Close The Gap Between Health Information Systems And External Documents.” The paper will provide readers with a detailed explanation of how to improve health information systems (HIS) and IT in the laboratory environment.
Health care creates a wealth of data. Every patient encounter, even a routine checkup, generates a significant volume of information. The trend is toward digital medical information, automated data entry, and the use of electronic health records (EHR), electronic medical records, laboratory information systems, and health information exchanges, among many other health IT tools. Health care reform and various government-led stimulus packages have further pushed the digital revolution onto health care. Nonetheless, there is a significant gap between reality and full adoption of digital medical information. A great deal of information is still produced on paper. Integrating it into an EHR for digital archiving, search, retrieval and analysis is a difficult, expensive, and time-consuming task.
Source: The Dark Report
