The Cleveland Clinic has been a leader in developing a digital medical record system. Now the Obama administration wants to replicate this model in hospitals across the country with an investment of $45 billion in stimulus funds. But Cleveland may not be an easy model to follow.
This could be done a lot less expensively by delivering the technology as online software and a central database. Build it once and scale up affordably.
The bandwidth requirements to do this online are not a problem. The security of medical records could easily be met with the same internet systems and procedures used to handle financial money transfers of up to a million dollars. The internet was designed to survive a global nuclear war, so I think it could be made reliable too.
SteveDashWhetstone 1 year ago