Accelerated transfer of information and substantially decreased administrative activity
Redundant tests now often performed because of lost or inaccessible past records
Sends alerts of adverse drug interactions and reminder for proper timing of tests, etc.
Disease trends and other medical conditions can be easily aggregated and detected over a wide variety of patients, and individually tailored treatments can be established and monitored for complex patients
Fast access to patient records can optimize treatments and procedures
More accessible and better developed measures of transparency
Includes comparisons on outcomes, quality, costs, adherence to protocols, reimbursement rates
Potential to dramatically accelerate clinical research
Makes possible the combination of clinical data from millions of patients, enables rapid learning of the value of new medical technology and disease
treatment
treatment
Potential for system-wide costs savings
As a result of improved efficiency and quality and decreases in error and redundancy
More benefits:
- Improve health care quality
- Prevent medical errors
- Reduce health care costs
- Increase administrative efficiencies
- Decrease paperwork
- Expand access to affordable care
- Early detection of infectious disease outbreaks around the country
- Improved tracking of chronic disease management
- Evaluation of health care based on value enabled by the collection of de-identified price and quality information that can be compared
