Kaiser Vice President Touts Benefits of EHRs for Business

A "fully functional" electronic health record system can give health care providers "24-hour access to a patient's up-to-the-minute medical history, which means treatment is more coordinated," but "the benefits of [EHRs] don't stop at the hospital or medical office building door," Kaiser Permanente Vice President Tom Carter writes in a Fresno Bee opinion piece. Carter writes that businesses can "obtain aggregated high-level data to help encourage their employees to be healthy," and employers "can use this information to better support employee health needs through targeted workplace health programs and activities."

• "Electronic Medical Records Offer Value for Businesses" (Carter, Fresno Bee, 11/15).