AMA member Todd Rowland, MD, executive director of HealthLINC—a rapidly expanding and operational health information exchange, believes the question all physicians should ask when transitioning to health information technology (HIT) is “will I get reliable patient data?”
In South Central Indiana, where Dr. Rowland is working to set up a communitywide system in which all health care providers can document, store and exchange patient information electronically, HIT has become more common. Most experts would attest to the fact that through HIT there are many valuable options to retrieve patient data. Dr. Rowland’s most familiar with two—an electronic medical record (EMR) and clinical messaging.
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