Mutually inclusive

When each of us has an electronic personal health record (PHR) and expect a care provider to have interoperable health information technology (HIT), adoption of electonic health record (EHR) or electronic medical record (EMR) systems by chronic, acute, and geriatric care providers will be accelerated.

Electronic management of health/medical data will help to

• improve outcomes
• reduce errors (incompatible meds, incorrect location, and the like) and
• reduce costs due to preventing repetititious tests and mis-filed charts.

A smartphone application that streamlines interoperability of these electronic records in the context of ICD-10 will leverage expert system and cloud computing capabilities.

Make knowledge visible for ease of understanding and subsequent decision-making about

• ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 transactions
• smartphone-mediated EHR/EMR and PHR systems and
• cloud computing for managing and mining electronic records (e.g. cost-reduction, utilization, and efficacy trends).

Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers could carry the lion's share of the electronic record technology burden so providers at all levels don't have to add "IT" to their plates.