“At a taping of the Dr. Oz Show on Saturday, Dr. Mehmet Oz and 75 laptop-wielding medical students entered clinical information on 1,000 patients into an electronic health record, courtesy of Practice Fusion, a provider of free web-based EHRs. The location was Philadelphia’s Temple University School of Medicine. Combing for indicators of heart disease and diabetes, they recorded in individual digital files, cholesterol and blood sugar levels (using Alere’s diagnostic tools), as well as blood pressure, body mass index, waist size and neck circumference. It took 15 minutes, with clinicians giving participants a summary of their medical report. In real life, the government is pushing doctors to give patients access to their health data within three days.”
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Zina Moukheiber, Forbes, 19 May 2012
