Dr. Tom Horan
Dr. Tom Horan, Director of Claremont Graduate University’s Kay Center for E-Health Research, believes that the real need for online medical records needs to fall into the hands of the uninsured and community clinics which serve this population.
“Research has shown that people who have more information about their health will make more healthy decisions,” Horan said. “Therefore, the power of the internet should be used to serve patients who need it the most.”
Digitizing health records would give Americans access to their medical files, which are mostly stored on paper, Horan said. By making health records digital, it would save time, money and lives, in reducing errors such as poor handwriting.
The Kay Center for E-Health research is based at CGU’s School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences.
About Claremont Graduate University
Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of the top graduate schools in the United States. Our nine academic schools conduct leading-edge research and award masters and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines. Because the world’s problems are not simple nor easily defined, diverse faculty and students research and study across the traditional discipline boundaries to create new and practical solutions for the major problems plaguing our world. A Southern California based graduate school devoted entirely to graduate research and study, CGU boasts a low student-to-faculty ratio.
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