Rural Hospitals Prescribe Gov 2.0 Solution with Digital Dashboards
The implementation of Cerner health-care technology systems in hospitals is a huge leap in technology. With such capabilities, both healthcare professionals and patients will have more ready access to patient information. Doctors and nurses will be able to utilize the system as a way of entering and recording patient data, and patients will have the ability to see their own medical information. This new digital dashboard system will also allow patients to take more of a part in their own health care, giving them the ability to perform research and even watch informational videos on their condition and caring for it without ever having to leave their hospital bed.
As a medical professional, such a unique and positive advancement in the field of medical technology is seemingly unheard of. Medical technology has come a long way since digital patient records were implemented, allowing health care providers to look up and even share patient information as it was all stored digitally. This takes things a step further, allowing everyone necessary to be involved in the patient care process. This type of digital dashboard information system could even help by allowing other people, such as family members and caregivers, to become involved in patient care, as well.
Another central focus of the article is that customized medical technology is something that the federal government has been pushing for a while now. Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra even went so far as to consider that the digital dashboard technology is another, albeit a very important, step toward promoting open government. Freedom and information when it comes to health-care is an important part of that.
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This article is rife with quotes and commentary from those who are involved in the story, so the author seems to put his opinion in the backseat. It is easy to tell that he approves of the new digital dashboards, and even goes so far as to make an assumption about what that would mean in the medical world. "This advanced automated technology...would create an infrastructure hat could eventually build a connected health network," he says.
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