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Improved health IT could help close gap in care.(Information Technology)
WASHINGTON -- Improving health information technology could go a long way toward eliminating disparities in health care, Newt Gingrich said at a meeting sponsored by the Alliance of Minority Medical Associations, the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services.
"The challenge is not to be futurist but to bring health care up to the world of the last 20 years," said Mr. Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives and founder of the Center for Health Transformation.
He criticized a recently adopted Florida law that requires physicians to print legibly when they write prescriptions. "First, it's a fantasy to think legislation will convince doctors to print legibly. Secondly, it's the wrong direction for change," he said. "Even a clearly printed prescription remains a paper prescription and misses all the opportunities for checking medication errors, checking other medications, and seeing if there are contraindications. In the long run, the future is an electronic prescription with an expert system to make sure you get the right medication."
People will need to think more creatively, he continued. "Imagine that the medical profession went to major cell phone manufacturers and said, 'We want you to develop a camera capability on a cell phone sufficiently vivid that we could do emergency diagnostics by phone.'"
At the same time, the health care industry needs to find better ways to standardize itself and to disperse information about best practices in medicine, Mr. Gingrich continued. "It can take 17 years for a best practice to reach the average doctor," he said. "We want to set a standard and migrate everybody to that standard."
He gave an example of how electronic health records could improve the standard of care. "A friend's father went in for an MRI, and her mother went in with him. They filled out five paper forms before the MRI. The mother happened to go into the doctor's office as they were preparing to do the MRI, and she said, 'You did know he has a pacemaker?' They stopped right there."
But if the patient had had an electronic health record, "that would have been obvious and automatic, and the expert system would check against ...
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