Going Digital and What it Means for Hospitals
Colorado Biz
In 2007, Children's Hospital Colorado became the first free-standing pediatric hospital in the nation to replace its paper files with electronic medical records (EMR) to be shared among its own emergency room doctors, pediatricians and specialists. Three years later, hospitals around the nation are going digital.
As the Obama Administration rolls out billions in incentives to prompt doctors to go digital (and warns that if they don't, there will be penalties to come in 2015) two critical questions are top-of-mind among many in the health-care field: Do electronic medical records save money? And do they improve patient care?
Read what the experts who have gone digital have to say.
