Solving some of medicine’s problems requires thinking outside the health care box. Like borrowing bar codes from the grocery store, or checklists from airline pilots.
We need to do the same for electronic records, which are stuck with archaic, 1990s programming technology. Take the user interface of Google, mix in the social networking tools of Facebook, and allow instant collaboration via Twitter.
Now that sounds like something I would use.
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Giving the privacy problems with all of those, I would run out of your practice so fast the door would fall of it’s hinges. Let’s not forget the Hipporcratic Oath.
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