The Move to Digital Medical Records
Tampa Bay is staging a revolution. Residents, mark your calendars — it begins on Monday, in your doctor’s office.
The city is about to announce that on Monday its mayor, representatives in Congress and health-care professionals will launch a new effort to make health records completely paper-free. That means digitizing every prescription and patient history written not only in the 10-county area surrounding Tampa and St. Petersberg, Fla., but also, eventually, in the rest of the country. Over the next two years, Tampa’s leaders plan to train every one of the 8,000 physicians in the area in electronic prescribing, with the goal of having at least 60% of all eligible prescriptions by Tampa Bay doctors written on a computer instead of a prescription pad.
Read more via The Move to Digital Medical Records: A First Step in Tampa – TIME.