Electronic Health Care Records Might Have Saved Michael Jackson

I hadn't actually intended to write anything about Michael Jackson ,but I've been trying to find analyses and opinions on President Obama's health care news conference (especially the part about electronic health records), and it seems that all the news shows and channels want to talk about is Michael Jackson.

Wake up, America, I want to say. Hear your President out. Let's have a national dialogue about health care reform, patient records,information storage, information management,collaboration and privacy.

OR, if you insist on talking about Michael Jackson, think about how an intervention might have occurred or his death might have been deterred if each one of his prescribing physicians had known about the other and about the prescriptions they'd each individually written. Sure, I know that addicts are incredibly crafty in feeding their diseases ,but I also know that some of them hit their bottoms, get help and find recovery. If the state of California can retroactively discover what drugs and in what amounts were given to the King of Pop at what time, couldn't they proactively had an alarm go off? Perhaps I'm being obtuse, but what's the point of collecting this data,so we could blame someone after the fact?

I'm by no means suggesting that this has anything to do with health care reform, but it does speak to what's possible if we were able to build systems and tools that were capable of assembling, analyzing, and delivering knowledge based on information we already have. I bet insurance companies have financed drug overdoses and accidental suicides...(any hungry trial attorneys out there?), but I'm getting way off topic....

What I want to say is that electronic health care records would not only eliminate waste (Patient time- when filling out the same forms at different doctors' offices, when repeating the same tests for different doctors, when updating his doctor on his visits with other physicians; Physician time- if the aforementioned data was delivered electronically he could optimize face time with the patient and deliver a higher quality of care;  Insurance company money - paying for duplicate tests, longer,less productive physician visits, manual data entry) and introduce efficiencies, they could also monitor prescription drug usage and deliver interaction alerts, give unassociated medical professionals,laboratories,and pharmacies access to more complete medical charts;allow patients to voluntarily log treatment effects into individual and centralized repositories...the possibilities are limitless.

And what does any of this have to do with Content Management,Information Management,Search Technologies,Portals and the web? Please don't tell me that you don't know.

When I was a kid I used to listen to the television say "We have the technology," during the opening moments of the Six Million Dollar Man, and that's where we are now. We can leverage information to improve the quality of our lives or we can let it lie dormant. It's up to you.

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