It comes back around to the same issue...yes health care technology is growing and there are many wonderful new advances taking place, but again once more...will someone be paying the bill anytime soon...doctors and patients would like to know...and until the system gets some improvements in the reimbursement area more than likely we will continue on the path of push coming to shove....BD
David Brailer, former national coordinator for health IT, and Stephen Lieber, head of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, or HIMSS, said 2008 will not be a year of "transformational change" in health IT, although there will be incremental changes, Modern Healthcare reports.
The health IT market will see growth in spending and adoption but no breakout change because of "the discussion around Medicare reimbursement and the proposed cuts, and the offsets of those cuts for pay-for-performance" programs, Lieber said.
Brailer, the current head of the venture capital fund Health Evolution Partners, said two areas will "get a lot of play in the next year or two," including "a number of products in the telemedicine space that use IT not as a database or workflow tool but as a telecommunication and management system," such as teleradiology.
Health IT Leaders Say 2008 Will See Incremental Changes - iHealthBeat
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