Dr. Tom Horan on real-time access to electronic medical records

Dr. Horan is the Director of the Kay Center for E-Health at Claremont Graduate University. He has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, and his current focus is researching electronic health records for use in the healthcare system. In this interview, he discusses the shortcomings of the existing healthcare record systems, the advantages of having real-time access to current medical records, and one of the big challenges standing in the way of providing consumers with their personal health records.

Read the edited transcript or listen to the original interview here.