IT has made inroads into almost every domain to ensure greater convenience/safety/accuracy/availability/cost saving. Today we can book a ticket to any part of the world, check our bank balances, transfer money instantly, buy goods and more - any time, all from the convenience of our desktop. Clinicians have been doing a great job of treating the sick but are slowly being overcome by a deluge of medical information that they need to read to remain current. Work pressures, lack of time, lack of access to information and many other factors lead to medical errors and less than optimal clinical outcomes that we all regret.
Even 1st world countries face such a problem. A 2013 study published in the prestigious Journal of Patient Safety states that as many as 4,40,000 people die from preventable medical errors every year(2,3) in the USA. The good news is that almost 80% of…
