The dentists have conducted 450 dental X-rays in their own right and designed 300 specialized mouth guards. Eye doctors performed 1,730 eye exams and gave out 1,410 sets of prescription glasses before the Games were halfway finished.

The U.S. Women’s Olympic wrestling team experienced a 60 percent reduction in surgeries as a result of the EHR, according to the USOC. It’s partly due to the EHR’s ability to translate data into insights and help to make changes in training and care.


Despite all the advanced care that athletes are being provided access to, the state of health care in Rio continues to provide a stark contrast. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta witnessed the contrast firsthand in an August 5 report.

"Every day in Rio, we lack about 150 beds for emergency care," Nelson Nahon, a doctor for Rio's regional Council for Medicine, told Gupta. "Intensive care is the same. They might even die in that period because they need intensive treatment and in the semi-intensive rooms they have, people who are supposed to stay there for 24 hours — they stay for 15 days."

A June 2014 survey conducted by Brazil’s Federal Medical Council showed that 93 percent of respondents consider Brazil’s public and private health care systems to be either very bad or mediocre.

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