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Dell announced an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) solution for hospital-affiliated physician practices to accelerate the sharing and meaningful use of digital patient information among hospitals and physician practices. Dell’s EMR solution is sponsored by hospitals for their affiliated physicians and is designed to make it affordable and practical for many more physician practices to transition from paper to electronic records. The EMR solution will also connect the community of physicians and their sponsoring hospitals so that they can harness the power of electronic patient information to improve and coordinate care, help reduce costs and streamline administration across their local healthcare system.

Less than 10 percent of U.S. physicians – many of whom are affiliated with a local hospital– have a fully-functional electronic records system that provides real-time access to patient histories and streamlines practice management with electronic patient registration, scheduling and billing. The potential of EMR to reduce healthcare costs for consumers, employers and the government has made its adoption a foundational plank in the federal government’s plan to reform healthcare and stimulate the U.S. economy. Healthcare providers who adopt EMR and achieve “meaningful use” by 2011 are eligible for bonus payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

With the debate on patient care, on being able to get treatment from your General Practioner regardless of where you live (here in the UK), it was at this point I heard discussions about needing linked record systems, an adaptable technical platform to enable doctors/nurses to access records on demand. At the same time, I was on the Dell site seeing what was in the news and came across this post, illustrating how they have announced a new EMR solution, an interesting read do check it out.

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