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With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

Catalyzed by the Recovery Act, adoption of electronic health records is increasing dramatically.

These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform.

Health IT helps save lives now lost due to preventable medical errors, from incorrect diagnoses and needless infections to drug mix-ups and surgical mishaps.

In the case of health information, I spent twenty-five years practicing medicine, and I was all too familiar with the fact that information wasn't properly shared, so I wouldn't know exactly what was in the hospital records; patients would be lost. Computerization gives the opportunity to actually get the information much better.

We need to have our medical records put on the IT.

Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.

Healthcare is becoming part of information technology.

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

You want to challenge experts, because experts get a lot wrong. Doctors misdiagnose one time in five. In the U.S. and Canada, 50,000 people die every year who would not have had to.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

It may seem a strange principal to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

If we are going to keep patients safe, then we have to make sure that doctors are able to learn from mistakes.

In medicine, all over the world, there are always going to be mistakes made.

Research must be central to healthcare if healthcare is to improve.

Thanks to the digital and big data revolution, we can start to do what was previously unthinkable - to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs while delivering personalized care to each individual.