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Obama's healthcare promises.

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joseph Posted: 07-04-2008 6:38 AM

 

  • Lowering Costs Through Investment in Electronic Health Information Technology Systems: Most medical records are still stored on paper, which makes it hard to coordinate care, measure quality or reduce medical errors and which costs twice as much as electronic claims. Obama will invest $10 billion a year over the next five years to move the U.S. health care system to broad adoption of standards-based electronic health information systems, including electronic health records, and will phase in requirements for full implementation of health IT. Obama will ensure that patients' privacy is protected.

    • http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/

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    DrMurdoch replied on 07-04-2008 10:41 AM

    joseph:

  • standards-based electronic health information systems, including electronic health records

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    Hard to get a standards-based EHR when they don't really exist in the standardless Health IT world.

    It all sounds good but implementing IT in today's healthcare systems can be a bottomless pit.

     

     

     

     

     

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