Speaking For Consumers On Health IT

Patient Advocate Foundation --

Nancy Davenport-Ennis wrote for Health Affairs blog on health IT.

Achieving comprehensive national uptake of health information technology (IT) is a monumental issue for the United States, in terms of improving patient safety, lowering taxpayer costs, and making health care portable in our increasingly portable society. By incorporating advanced IT into our health care delivery system, we will be able to transform our current system into one that better meets patients’ needs consistently through timely, affordable, transparent, interoperable processes that assure instant access to complete medical information — anytime, anywhere — that is transmitted seamlessly and securely from provider to provider.

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