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Buffalo Medical Group, which handles 415,00 0 outpatients per year, is in the process of updatinvg its data systems and patient records to a paperless electronic CEO Daniel Scully said the electronic records will replacwe a warehouse fullof 5,000 boxes of patienyt record. Scully said he expects the transitiobn to be complete by the endof 2010. Doctors and administratorsz also showed the congressmajn newmedical equipment.
A CT scanned obtained six months ago can scan thebody “from nose to toes,” in the words of one doctor who visitefd with Lee – in 20 A computer program can then compressw 2,000 images to producwe a 3D image on the monitor wherd doctors can zoom and turn the image to get a full Irene Snow, medical director and a primary care physician, said digitized test resultas come in much quicker now. Often, she said results get back to her withinthrede minutes. “In the old world this would have taken 42 to 72 she said. “Now patients can get their (results) the same day.
” Lee, R-Clarence, also registered for the BuffaloMedical Group’s onliner patient communication database. With MyChart, Snow said patients can accesz theirmedical records, get lab schedule appointments and get referrals MyChart launched last August and 6,0090 patients have signed up for it since it became availabld to all primary care patients. Snow said she hopes Lee and othed lawmakers on Capitol Hill will push for more efficieng healthcare technology. “If we’re goingg to create a cost effectivre and efficient healthcare system, then they’v e got to figure out ways to fund ...
(more) technologty in physicians’ offices and help groups like ours to Lee also addressed members of the Tuesday at Wanakah Countr y Club about Congressional proposals on the tabl and his ideas for healthcare reforms.