In every consultation that you have with your physician, there is a lot of valuable information exchanged. There are Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems used by doctors around the world to capture critical information in a secure format. Large corporations already exist to meet this goal. Click here to see a simple EHR schema.
The usage of EHR systems is more prevalent in the advanced countries of the world where governments spend a great deal of funds on healthcare, understanding the importance that this is for the greater well being of its citizens. After all, unless you have a healthy population, all other businesses will be impacted either directly or indirectly, causing enormous losses to the GDP in terms of lost productivity due to people taking time off due to their ailments.
The data in an EHR system and the systems built around this provide people in the healthcare industry as well as insurance companies, the ability to analyze the data using predictive analytics and statistical modeling for better treatment outcomes, lower cost to the patient and reduced insurance claims.
At DOCCLIN, we work on the same lines to analyze patient - doctor interactions at all levels, from the family physician, to large hospital chains.
This can be made possible if the healthcare industry is able to collaborate and share findings between institutions, in compliance with patient anonymity and full conformance of medical ethics and regulations.