In the Connected Health future, sophisticated technologies will be available to all clinicians through connected collaboration and use of electronic clinical information, such as health records. Meanwhile today, in order for IT to drive healthcare transformation, adoption of IT by office-based physicians is essential for the deliver of care in the long term.

Electronic information is available to any physician whose practice has basic IT resources—a PC with a Web browser and high-speed Internet access. For example, a core clinical record for each patient can be created from multiple sources and provided to physicians with the click of a mouse.

The Cisco® Internet Business Solutions Group is committed to helping clinicians become part of the Connected Health community, where not only will IT help improve the delivery of care, but will also help enable substantial savings when physicians share electronic healthcare information. Studies have shown that e-prescriptions, for example, could result in savings of $29 billion if 70 percent to 75 percent of all physicians used such systems.