Halamka, Leavitt, and Tooker: A Shared Roadmap and Vision for Health IT

From “A Shared Roadmap and Vision for Health IT“:

Our current, paper-based health information process wastes hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Transforming this into a streamlined 21st century electronic system will require many components: a conversion to interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) at healthcare facilities, the adoption of online personal health records (PHRs) for individuals, health information organizations that support and connect these systems to allow information sharing, and finally a national health information network that allows instantaneous secure access—always with appropriate consent from the individual—wherever and whenever their records are needed.

Continue reading this shared view on the future of health IT from John D. Halamka, MD, MS; Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD; and John Tooker, MD, MBA, FACP.

This paper is also available on John Halamka’s blog and The Health Care Blog.