Eric Saff, chief information officer and senior vice president of John Muir Health in Walnut Creek, California, has a lot to say about the health information exchange within his home state. Recently, at the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Atlanta, Saff sounded off in a video interview with ModernHealthcare.
As part of the stimulus package, Saff says a significant amount of money would be invested in health information technology to upgrade and increase the quality of the data exchange systems that either are in place, or will be soon. By updating data exchange systems and taking advantage of current technology, Saff says patient care will be greatly impacted as efficiency increases.
Perhaps the greatest innovation Saff sees on the horizon for healthcare information technology, and medical care technology in general, is a communication fusion between older and increasingly outdated communication and word processing systems.
On the near horizon is the ability to enable doctors, nurses, hospitals and primary care physicians to communicate via text and picture messaging. That level communication goes far beyond traditional paging systems. In fact, it’s already in practice in many places.
Learn more about what Saff had to say about healthcare information technology and patient care at the HIMSS conference by watching the full video.
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