Why are cars more important than people?

Have you ever noticed that when you take your car in for service, the person checking your car in looks it up in the computer, tells you what service has been performed in the past, and what needs to be done now based upon the car’s mileage and your description of what is wrong with it?

You do not have to remember anything that was done to your car, or when. You do not have to keep a detailed file at home with every problem your car has ever been diagnosed with, and what specific service was performed to fix each problem. You don’t even have to keep track of when your car is due for scheduled maintenance. Your car dealer or favorite garage will send you a reminder via mail or email!

If you’re a person instead of a car, you are in trouble. The responsibility to maintain your own personal health record is yours!  Only you will have a complete list of every medication you are taking now, or have taken in the past, and for what problem. Only you will have a complete list of all your diagnosed illnesses or surgeries. That is not right, is it? Your doctors should have all your medical history at their fingertips, available 24/7, in order to make the best and most informed decisions about your care. With electronic health records, they will have exactly that!

We all know family members or friends who have had terrible healthcare experiences due to incomplete or missing medical history needed by the doctor at the time of care. We at Inforia feel so strongly about the need to remedy this that our software is priced affordably and is designed in such a way that it is easy for a medical practice to adopt and use… with no reduction in patient schedules during Go Live week! With all the negatives of traditional EHRs taken away, there is no reason for medical practices to continue using incomplete and unsearchable paper charts.

The final piece of the puzzle is the exchange of data between computer systems. Unlike many EHR companies, Inforia has led the way in interfacing to Health Information Exchanges, hospitals, and other EHR and Practice Management Systems. People go to many different doctors and occasionally to a hospital. It is critical that a person’s medical history is accessible to all the providers that person sees. Inforia is committed to this vision – don’t let a car be more important than you!