How a regional database (CPR) can improve health care while reducing costs.
Reduce repeated tests by making records available ubiquitously (30% of tests are unnecessary).
Leads to faster, more efficient care which will lower costs.
Give health care professionals more information to base decisions on.
Allows for architecture to create decision support systems at the point of care.
Allows for datamining and datawarehousing to allow for outcomes based diagnostic and treatment decisions.
Permits faster transfer of info to managed care companies to facilitate precertification, insurance verification and concurrent utilization review.