Electronic health records technology gets $1.2 billion

Source: eFitness NOW

The Obama administration announced it will soon give $1.2 billion in federal grants for applying electronic health records technology.

“This ain’t government control,” Biden told more than 50 people gathered before a panel discussion at Mt. Sinai Hospital on Chicago’s West Side. “We are trying to modernize. All of this sounds pretty fancy but it’s about modernizing the system. Electronic health records can help reduce medical errors, make healthcare more efficient and improve the quality of medical care for all Americans.” ”

Biden and his people were at Mount Sinai this morning where they met with medical professionals from Northwestern University and Mount Sinai.

Read more: http://www.efitnessnow.com/news/2009/08/20/electronic-health-records-technology-gets-12-billion/

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If I find a better source I will post it.

I guess that ain't fancy enough.

Biden is a scarecrow.

and that is impossible.

Educated, highly intelligent people make mistakes - it is part of the human condition.

Throwing a hig tech solution at it when the Government can't even get real time unemployment figures is nuts.

How about going after the low hanging, but very important fruit before inserting more complexity into an already incomprehensible healthcare system.

I think you get my drift.

and it helps enormously.

So, banks operate exclusively with electronic data, and I don't see any problems there.

Or the thousands of SEC case files that were stored in WTC 7 on 9/11.

And if you think that comparing the Banks "Success" using electronic data exclusively, I think you are barking up the wrong tree. It only facilitated quicker, more efficient way to promote and continue fraudulent activity.

Are you for getting rid of Libraries and putting everything in the Library of Congress on the Web? Just think about the implications of that sort of scenario for one moment..

I much prefer books to something like kindle.

I was talking about experiences of electronic medical records, and as far as account servicing is concerned, banks work very well. There is the opportunity for FRAUD in everything, even baksheesh cold hard cash. It has to be regulated.

That doctors, clinics, and hospitals could install and use free of software license fees.

Otherwise, a lot of this is a giveaway to Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft and a bunch of proprietary health records software vendors whose systems won't talk to each other except with great difficulty, consulting fees, and customization projects.

and I wrote one for my own use, with Paradox. In 1994. Cost $120 and hours of work. But every time there's some change I can change it myself for free. Keeps data for records and billing.

I agree with you that it's likely a boon for some proprietary software vendors rather than principally an improvement in records management.

How would you handle the security on a project like that?

to think that anyone and every one will be able to see your records is silly.

If the data is computerized and that data gets hacked (which you can bet someone will try), don't say you weren't warned. As I put in another thread, if 150 million credit card numbers can get stolen by one man, think how accessible the data will be when it's in the hands of every health care provider in the country.

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Once it's gone, it's gone for good.

It takes an extraordinary lack of imagination, or naive trust in the competence and moral discipline of strangers, to not see what trouble this can bring.

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