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Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving break. Now as the work week resumes, it’s time to get back on schedule with our regular activities. Today we will discuss about a new initiative in the health domain

As Boomers age, health and taking care of health are big concerns. Sometimes you find that the present day healthcare system leaves you wanting for more. One example is in the paperwork or your medical records and how hard it is to get to them quickly. For example, imagine an elderly patient under stroke attack is brought into the emergency room of a hospital. A “clot-buster” drug, administered in the first few hours, can improve the patient’s chances. Definitely. Unless that patient has been taking blood thinners, has had very recent surgery or has a history of brain bleeding - in which case the drug could cause life-threatening hemorrhaging. In such an emergency situation, when timely information is crucial for the physician, the current day system makes it very hard for the doctor to obtain the needed information quickly, if at all possible.

Now imagine that the doctor could log on to an electronic medical records system and obtain details of the patients conditions and medical and drug history at his or her fingertips, the doctor now has a very powerful lever to diagnose the patient correctly and prescribe the right treatment for the patient, without having to guess. There have been many efforts, past and present, in this direction and many have folded under the complex challenges in bringing together such a system. But challenges not withstanding, here is another attempt, albeit in a smaller scale to help the senior residents of a particular group of retirement homes to enable access to the residents’ medical records by the hospital that they visit most. Something worth watching out for…