My sister is a Medical Director at a large New England Hospital. She states the immediate and urgent need for improvement of collection of data for patients is extremely critical, especially for the elderly who really need an advocate to ensure the best primary care they can receive when hospital care can be inadequate, disconnected, not well communicated and downright hard to comprehend for critical decission making. Our mother recently has gone though serious health issues and without my sister's perserverance throughout the ordeal, our mother, I'm afraid to say, may not still be with us today. The amount of medical records,doctors, interns, residents, mediccine/prescription details, communication, etc, etc, in a typical patient's day can be mind boggling, hard to process and understand, never mind what this means to someone who may be 75 or older. There has to be a better way.What Dr. Soon proposes is essential to the future of healthcare:a better, faster and more efficient way of retrieving/recordkeeping medical data that can be instantaneously reviewed to make the best diagnosis right then and there. The lives of millions (baby boomers are affected daily by this lack of data gathering each and every day...myslef included.At some point in the near future we in the US will hit an impasse where we will need to make our hospital beds and be able to sleep in them comfortably. People are living longer, yet the quality of one's life and healthcare is severely lacking in the equation.
Hopefully, Dr. Soon and his plan for a more efficient, effective, and safer method to collectively gather and retain access to critical medical records is what we need. God knows it costs us enough in dollars and sense. Perhaps QR codes can help get us there...JMO
