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OK, maybe it's not the local story everyone's talking about at the dinner table. But the Greater Tulsa Health Access Network, a collaboration of all major health providers in the region, has the potential for not only saving scores of lives in these parts, but also for saving hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Medical providers are notoriously and understandably competitive, but dozens of them set aside those turf differences in order to develop this information-sharing system that will benefit everyone in the long run.
"As far as I know, this is the broadest collaboration that's occurred in health care in this region," said Dr. David Kendrick, a professor at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa who has spearheaded the effort.
Such systems will be a requirement of health providers within a few years. Tulsa leaders hope that the regional plan under development here will be a good candidate for some of the stimulus funds that have yet to be earmarked in Oklahoma.
Medical-records systems enable participating providers to access a patient's records instantaneously, which can greatly cut down on unnecessary, duplicative testing. Ready access to patient records also could prevent hundreds of potentially fatal drug interactions
every year.
Patients would have the right to refuse to allow their records to be included in the information-sharing system if they so desired.
About 200 health care leaders from this part of the state have been working on the network concept since June. Now the plan is ready to move into the implementation stage.
It is remarkable that so many in the health care field joined together to move this idea forward, but it is not surprising. That's the way this region works. Once again, it is refreshing and reassuring to see such phenomenal progress occurring.
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