Patients and families may soon have a great opportunity to have more control over – and make improvements in – the health care they receive.

Patients and families may soon have a great opportunity to have more control over – and make improvements in – the health care they receive.
Recently, a reporter conducted an analysis of the people considered to be “the most powerful” in the field of health information technology (IT).
We’ve said it before and you know it’s true: health information technology is for better health outcomes, not just better technology. And the new regulations released by the Obama administration show that they get it.
This just in. What health care experts have suspected for some time has been demonstrated by a new study published in the American Journal of Managed Care: patients who can rely on a coordinated system where their providers talk to each other, their medical information is available electronically, and they have improved access to doctors and nurses – have better health outcomes.