Robert H. Lorsch, Chief Executive Officer of MyMedicalRecords in a presentation commented on an article that appeared in the March 14 issue of Parade magazine published in newspapers throughout the United States.

The article cited a Harvard Medical School study contending electronic health record do not save money for hospitals or doctors. "It's simply not accurate," said Lorsch. "Any move towards deployment and integration of EMR Systems will save hospitals and doctors money if managed properly."

Lorsch is especially interested in seeing electronic health record work. "MMRPro lets doctors and nurses and other healthcare professionals focus on the symptoms of their patients rather than an error message on a screen," Lorsch said.

MMRPro introduces the convergence of paper and Health IT to the digital age by providing document management, E-Prescribe and the patient chart management portion of an EHR with minimal interruption to the way offices treat their patients. Additionally, MMRPro is one of the only Health Information Systems that is compatible with any system for electronic medical records or personal health record s today. The MMRPro platform is integrated in an MMRPro520 System, which combines the latest in Kodak imaging technologies with a system designed specifically to bring hospitals and doctors' offices into the digital age.

"The real problem in the medical profession is how to manage the mounds of patient charts bursting out of folders and stacks of records piled high to the ceiling in storage boxes," said Lorsch. "Paper is literally choking hospitals and doctors' offices - with more than 2.4 trillion pieces of paper being generated in the medical profession each year - enough paper to circle the earth 18,000 times." Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who serves on the Company's Board of Advisers, made this point at the recent HIMSS convention. He appeared on behalf of MMR Information Systems to help call attention to how MMRPro responds to the costly and time-consuming challenge of digitizing paper-based medical records.

"It is easy to argue the case that EMR s do not work when hospitals pour billions into EMR systems and advertising them in a quest for an improbable ROI. Maybe they should use some of this money to reduce healthcare costs and provide for more comprehensive patient care," said Lorsch.

Source : MyMedicalRecords

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