It’s the unlikeliest of portals into the future of health-care delivery in the U.S.: a small, low-slung, brick building in the middle of Queens, N.Y., with a blue banner strung across the facade heralding street-front primary care.
But inside, Dr. Michele C. Reed, medical director of the five-person practice, has done something that she thinks is absolutely necessary for anyone who wants to practice medicine in the modern world: Her office has gone paperless.
No more chasing files. No more lost charts. No more bringing home folders full of lab reports and examination notes. No more dank basements full of filing cabinets crammed with paper. She is well on her way toward creating a seamless system of health care whereby everything from scheduling, to referrals, to prescriptions, to getting lab results, to interactions with insurance providers takes place by wire, air and microchip.
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Author: Jonathan Walters
