Lawrence Summers Quotes

Until recently, there was more information technology in your average grocery store than in your doctor’s office.

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

Your care and your treatment shouldn't be dictated by your ZIP code.

The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

Electronic medical records are, in a lot of ways, I think the aspect of technology that is going to revolutionize the way we deliver care. And it's not just that we will be able to collect information, it's that everyone involved in the healthcare enterprise will be able to use that information more effectively.

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.

Healthcare is becoming part of information technology.

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.

I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.

There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'

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

Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary.

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

I have always been interested in health care and doing something that is dramatic.

As more of our medical records are stored electronically, the threats to our privacy will increase.

The only way to get health care abundance is to use technology.

It's O.K. if you've got a smartphone app or a social network, and you go live with it before it's ready; people aren't going to die. But with medicine, it's different.

The global healthcare industry is undergoing a paradigm shift, providing significant opportunities for Philips to deliver more integrated solutions across the continuum of care - from prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to monitoring and aftercare.

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.

Crucially, healthcare needs to become connected. It should become effortless for medical professionals to share relevant data with colleagues around the world. Medical devices and systems in hospitals should be able to combine multiple sources of information.