NBA to Adopt Cloud-Based Electronic Health Record Platform

The National Basketball Association has announced plans to implement an electronic platform to store health information for athletes on its 30 professional teams, according to an eWeek report.

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The NBA will use Cerner’s cloud-based platform, HealtheAthlete, to move away from its traditional paper-based system. According to the report, digitized athlete records will benefit the league in a variety of ways:

• An automated and unified system provides trainers and physicians better means to manage athletes’ care.
• Athletes can track their own data as well as exchange messages with physicians or trainers when they want to request prescriptions or schedule appointments.
• Health data will be searchable across an organization.
• When athletes switch teams, their data can easily travel to the new team.

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