Learning From Healthcare
What lessons can education policymakers learn from health care in their push to create and use data systems? Read my new commentary inEducation Week.
Is Data the Cure-All?
Lessons From Health Care for Education Policymakers
Kaiser Permanente’s 8.7 million members no longer gather up reams of old paper charts and prescription records when meeting with a new doctor. Instead, each of the health-care giant’s 14,000 physicians can instantly access patients’ electronic medical records—up-to-date digital archives of a patient’s medical history, complete with medications, vaccinations, and important safety information, such as allergies and any known reactions to medicine. This allows for greater convenience, but also for information-sharing across a multiplicity of doctors, nurses, specialists, and pharmacists.
Kaiser Permanente is one of the