Posts Tagged ‘Health Information Exchange’
Monday, February 22, 2010
Keeping My Child Out of the ER: The Importance of Accessible Data
By Amy Costello, Project Director, New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice
Last Thursday, after a scary afternoon of trying to manage my daughter’s asthma at home, we ended up in the Emergency Room. Elizabeth is 20 months old. She has had asthma-like symptoms with a cold so I was able to recognize that she was having difficulty breathing. I called our family physician. She was out of the office and the covering physicians were booked for the rest of the day. I made an appointment for Elizabeth for 9:15 the next morning, and crossed my fingers that the breathing would get easier instead of worse. At 6:00 that night, with Daddy out of town and Elizabeth retracting under her ribcage, I packed her, her older sister, and some Sippy cups into the car for a field trip to the Emergency Room (ER).
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