Revamping a Technological Health Care System
For decades upon decade, the health care facilities that we call hospitals have always been on a paper record system for every piece of information.
Medical accounts receivable information has always been a little bit of a hassle when transferring information about patients from one hospital to another or discussing information about medical receivable financing with different patients.
Now with all of our new age technology and several different opportunities to retrieve and enter data more easily, it is much more appreciated when a doctor or nurse can simply go to their station and enter data on a computer rather than writing every little detail down.
Many dentists all around the country have been using medical storage units with their computers to store digital pictures of x-rays, medical information regarding patients, and other information that is easily stored in simple data software.
For billing records and other things though, paper copies are still used with an old fashioned alphabetical labeling system.
Hospitals are starting to do the same sort of thing and so are schools and universities, but we just have not been able away from all of the paper trails that we have for records of different people.
Because the big switch to everything technology has been such a big deal, even the President has stepped in to try to make a big difference in the switch itself.
For this year's taxes, President Obama offered a very large sum of a tax break for any hospital that made a switch from paper copies of records to electronic copies of records.
This may sound like an easy task but indeed it takes a lot of staff and a lot of time to make sure that all current and prior patients are accounted for.
This process can literally take an entire year, a very expensive year at that, and so the tax break was an incentive to go ahead and get that done.
How nice would it be to transfer from one doctor to another without worrying about the hassle of transferring paper documents as well? One would be able to move from one doctor to another, and on the same software, one would simply send an e-mail to another and it would be an extremely fast process.
All of the necessary data would be accessible and shared with whomever it needs to be shared with and the amount of paper being utilized by hospitals would drastically cease.
Though this may sound amazing, it is not something that will happen directly overnight.
Hospitals will need as much time as they can get which means that unless it become a mandatory option, the process could take as much time as twenty years to complete.
There is no doubt that it is a hassle, but the process is also very helpful in that it creates more jobs, more revenue, and ultimately makes hospitals look better and more advanced.
People like the simplified idea of electronic medical records, so until the big switch happens for everyone, we will still be hoping for that paperless visit to the doctor's office.
Medical accounts receivable information has always been a little bit of a hassle when transferring information about patients from one hospital to another or discussing information about medical receivable financing with different patients.
Now with all of our new age technology and several different opportunities to retrieve and enter data more easily, it is much more appreciated when a doctor or nurse can simply go to their station and enter data on a computer rather than writing every little detail down.
Many dentists all around the country have been using medical storage units with their computers to store digital pictures of x-rays, medical information regarding patients, and other information that is easily stored in simple data software.
For billing records and other things though, paper copies are still used with an old fashioned alphabetical labeling system.
Hospitals are starting to do the same sort of thing and so are schools and universities, but we just have not been able away from all of the paper trails that we have for records of different people.
Because the big switch to everything technology has been such a big deal, even the President has stepped in to try to make a big difference in the switch itself.
For this year's taxes, President Obama offered a very large sum of a tax break for any hospital that made a switch from paper copies of records to electronic copies of records.
This may sound like an easy task but indeed it takes a lot of staff and a lot of time to make sure that all current and prior patients are accounted for.
This process can literally take an entire year, a very expensive year at that, and so the tax break was an incentive to go ahead and get that done.
How nice would it be to transfer from one doctor to another without worrying about the hassle of transferring paper documents as well? One would be able to move from one doctor to another, and on the same software, one would simply send an e-mail to another and it would be an extremely fast process.
All of the necessary data would be accessible and shared with whomever it needs to be shared with and the amount of paper being utilized by hospitals would drastically cease.
Though this may sound amazing, it is not something that will happen directly overnight.
Hospitals will need as much time as they can get which means that unless it become a mandatory option, the process could take as much time as twenty years to complete.
There is no doubt that it is a hassle, but the process is also very helpful in that it creates more jobs, more revenue, and ultimately makes hospitals look better and more advanced.
People like the simplified idea of electronic medical records, so until the big switch happens for everyone, we will still be hoping for that paperless visit to the doctor's office.
