Goal of IBM Project: Let Doctors, Patients, Hospitals Share E-Data
Posted on: Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 15:00 CDT
Apr. 26--IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose announced Monday that it is developing a test system to share electronic medical records and other health data among doctors, patients and hospitals.
The project, called the Interoperable Health Information System, is designed to be the first system of its kind in the health care industry.
IBM expects to have a pilot system in place by the end of this year that will link IBM Almaden with other IBM research sites in Rochester, Minn., and Haifa, Israel. Part of the plan in the test project is to figure out which industry standards will work best.
"This is an attempt to create a model in the laboratory of what health care will look like in the future," said James Kaufman, a team leader and research manager for the project. "We will experiment with services to show the value of having your medical records in electronic form."
The ability to store medical records electronically is expected to lower health care costs, improve the quality of health care and enable public health officials to more easily analyze data and identify emerging health care trends. IBM said it has been estimated that the move to electronic health records could cut 10 percent or more from the $1.7 trillion spent on health care annually in the United States alone.
Sharing health information electronically also could make new services available for consumers, researchers and physicians, IBM said. For consumers, that might involve obtaining medical advice based on their health profile. Physicians and public-health officials might gain tools to study emerging infectious diseases.
IBM also plans to make the prototype software code of its tool for studying infectious diseases available to developers so they can explore its potential and provide guidance for further development.
The Armonk, N.Y., computer giant said it is already working with several regional health-information organizations in the United States to enable the sharing of electronic within a region or a state.
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