The Journal of mHealth Vol 1 Issue 2 (Apr 2014) | Page 54

Obamacare: Electronic Medical Records
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ing the patient care they were originally trained for. These environments easily lead to misdiagnosis,
negative impact on productivity, and
time taken away from patients, contrary to the goals of Obamacare.

TIME FOR BAND-AID TO
BE CHANGED
Obamacare’s emphasis on quality care also impacts the method
of reimbursement, from pay-perprocedure to pay-per-performance,
non-reimbursement for readmission
within 30 days of discharge, and
quality guidelines. These enforcements dramatically change the need
for care quality, efficiency and productivity for care providers from
nice-to-have to must haves.
With Obamacare’s paperless records
mandate beginning this year, 2014 is
the time to finally fulfill the original
promise of ending medical deaths
and needless spending. This is the
year to resolve these issues and go
beyond the EMR band-aid approach.

BRIDGING THE DATA
GAP
What the medical industry needs to
finally bridge the gap between medical records and improved patient
care is technology that works the
way medical professionals work. A
system to align medical professionals
with data that needs to be collaborative, not passive, and include analysis. The right data also needs to be
delivered to those who need it, when
they need it, with all the data in one
place. A true electronic replacement
for the all encompassing and universally deployed nurses’ chart.
Provide an open architecture so
third-party developers can save on
development costs when creating new, innovative solutions.

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A cloud-based data network that
connects to multiple databases and
legacy systems instead of proprietary databases. Systems that make
the data smart through collaborative
platforms that can analyse and interpret the data.

costly, resource wasting practice of
replacing old systems with new. This
scrap and build IT practice at many
medical facilities is one of the leading causes of high hospital costs that
are passed onto insurance companies
and ultimately consumers.

Add voice to text capability to save
valuable physician and nurse time
and help end miscommunications.
Replace the nurses’ sheet with a
single screen that can compare and
analyse all the necessary data with all
medical professionals using the same
device.

MEDICAL RECORD HUBS
FOR 2014
While EMR software can still be used
for more limited point-to-point solutions, there needs to be a paradigm
shift with a patient centric approach
that connects
all the points.
Smart collaborative hubs
need to be
How healthy
developed that
enable hospital IT administrators
to
differentiate
between these
new data hubs
and traditional
EMR services.

Thanh Tran is CEO of Zoeticx, Inc.,
a medical software company located
in San Jose, CA. He is a 20 year veteran of Silicon Valley’s IT industry
and has held executive positions at
many leading software companies. 

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However,
developers
must ensure
that present
EMR
tools
can connect
and share data
with these new
overarching
hub systems,
side lining yet
another
set
of tools and
further implementing the

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