electronic health records
Big Data is, and will continue to be, a major problem for healthcare providers. One estimate has healthcare Big Data sized at 150 exabytes and growing at a phenomenal rate of 1.2 exabytes per year. The possibilities of tapping into that information are endless.
Only a close collaboration between governments, companies and ecosystem players, who have the collective experience and skills, good understanding of the industry and a strong track record, can improve the quality of medical services.
IDC Health Insights is expecting the market for electronic medical records/electronic health records (EMR/EHR) to grow from less than 25 percent in 2009 to over 80 percent by 2016 in the United States.
The rate of US hospitals' adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) is expected to expand significantly over the next several years, particularly for advanced EHRs, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan.
Australia has made available for public consultation the draft eHealth records legislation that will serve as the basis for protecting patients' privacy in an eHealth system.
Oracle has provided a comprehensive platform for electronic health records as part of the Accenture consortium to support the Singapore Ministry of Health Holdings' (MOHH) launch of one of the world's first national electronic health record (NEHR) systems.
The first stage of a $22.5-million project to create an electronic healthcare records (EHR) system for the province of Manitoba has gone live, according to a release from IBM.
Digitizing medical records through initiatives such as electronic health records (EHR) remains the top priority of healthcare providers across the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ region in 2011, a recent report by IDC Health Insights said.
Pascal Tse, CIO with St. Teresa's Hospital in Hong Kong, notes that IT professionals in healthcare have the added task remembering that many of the applications and systems they have in place are used in the provision of healthcare service. He also notes that data security and privacy are at the top of the priority list when it comes to health IT.
Both the private and public sector in many countries are pushing for the adoption of electronic health record systems (EHRs), in an attempt to rationalize healthcare delivery in their respective nations.
