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July 2006
 Patient-Centric: the 21st Century Prescription for Health Care
This paper presents IBM's position on the meaning of a
patient-centric health care system centered on electronic health
records (EHR) and the benefits and challenges of such a system.
The changes necessary to create a patient-centric system, and the
role that IBM is playing in the EHR transformation are also
included.
The switch to a patient-centric EHR system, which would
enable patients and doctors to access patient records from any data
storage system or interface requires robust standards of security
and interoperability. IBM consultants feel that the requisite system
implementations reflect IBM's core strengths in data collection,
aggregation, storage, integration and management. Therefore, IBM is
providing hardware, software and consulting services to dramatically
improve patient records management, biosecurity, information-based
medicine and computational biology.
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