Electronic Medical Records Still Need Work, Report Says from Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system's conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue.

Hospitals and doctors' offices increasingly are going digital, the Bipartisan Policy Center says in a report being released Friday. But there's been little progress getting the computer systems to talk to one another, exchanging data the way financial companies do.

"The level of health information exchange in the U.S. is extremely low," the report says.

At the consumer level, few people maintain a personal health record on their laptop or electronic tablet, partly due to concerns about privacy, security and accuracy that the government hasn't resolved.

"How will sensitive health data be kept confidential and secure in digital data-sharing environments?" the report asks. "Many consumers ... are waiting for a reassuring answer to this question."

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Professional Medical Documents: Master Your 'Word' from Nurse Together

Remember typewriters? We sure have come a long way since then. Granted, those clunky old machines were wonderfully straightforward—a few keys, the occasional bottle of Wite-Out®, and you were all set. But before you start getting nostalgic for the good old days, consider this: contemporary word processing programs such as Microsoft Word offer countless ways to compose, organize, and enhance written documents quickly and more efficiently in the workplace. And in the healthcare setting, its high degree of usability makes Word the premier choice for creating professional-quality documents for a broad range of purposes.

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