The key to any future digital transformation of the Healthcare Industry is moving away from old paper medical records to electronic medical records (EMRs) or electronic health records (EHRs). The following is a list of the top companies providing medical records systems to the industry today.
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Electronic medical records have the same problem that Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications have had in business for over 20 years. Physicians, Nurses and Admin workers hate the systems. Why? They have to spend extra hours every day updating the patient data and much less time analyzing information to help them treat their patients. According to Bruce Korus, co-founder of the Health Innovation Think Tank (HITT) and a top Healthcare Industry Consultant, the University of Wisconsin Madison, studied the time spent by primary care physicians (PCP) on data input. They found PCP’s spent about 6 hours a day, with many hours spent outside of clinic hours updating records.
The healthcare industry is about 10 years behind other industries and can avoid many of the same mistakes.
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Today, executives in every industry must keep up with the latest technology to give their customers faster, better quality experiences and services at a lower cost. We all know that Amazon and Uber/Lyft have disrupted their industries and changed the way we do business today.
But what about Healthcare? Physicians are burning out, patients dislike the healthcare experience, caregivers are overburdened, and out-of-pocket costs have exponentially increased out of control.
Recently, I was a guest speaker at one of our Healthcare Innovation Think Tank monthly meetings. The topic was on "Perspectives from Silicon Valley on Digital Health." Here are a few exciting things that are going on in HealthTech.
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