We have been in the computer revolution for several years. We have scanners that are based completely on computers. We have medical arthroscopic devices that are loaded with different central procession Units (CPU) and other electronic gadgetry.
The good old XRAY machine is now completely working with digitization and e-films. Your MRI is nothing but a very powerful magnet and powerful processors to compute the read data of the condition of a patient’s tissues.
One might then ask why the most simple part of medicine is yet to be automated. Why is electronic medical records software not ubiquitous. It is should have likely been the first part of our medical system to be placed under computer control.
Sometimes I wonder who is in charge. It is said that the market is more efficient. It is said that the market automatically does what is best for the patient. That is not the case. There are times where we the people must force the market to do what is right. The market is not magic. In fact we have a market based medical system that absent a strong push from we the people to automate it will be only be accessible to a few.
