What happened to better health care? Most of the physicians and clinicians that I know are still in pursuit of providing better documented and standards of health care...and that entails many entities...but again in previous posts there have been areas where many members are "uncomfortable" with discussing technology...and just recently Bill Gates testified in front of Congress talking about more education needed for the field of technology and this could start right with members of Congress...and one more item 
worth mentioning is the cost for the physician on medical records...yes they do benefit by having all the information together for better health care, ask any physician using an EMR or EHR on the value of better patient care, but the cost for many is escalating and someone needs to help in this area so they can have the resources needed...instead of cutting their compensation...so this is indeed one very disappointing report and sadly tells the story of where the focus is....cost...not better healthcare as nobody wants to pay the bill today.
The system is broken and we need a new pool to generate money to cover the cost. A federal sales tax of a couple pennies might do the trick in creating a new pool of revenue large enough so everyone contributes and everyone could get paid. There doesn't appear to be any real source of revenue today that is large enough to cover health care. We need drugs, hospitals, doctors, technology, etc. and it's time to find and create a new pool of revenue to substantiate and take care of the citizens of the US instead of what is happening today. BD
A report from the Congressional Budget Office casts doubt on previous studies of substantial cost savings from widespread use of health information technology, particularly electronic health records. The report could influence prospects for congressional approval of I.T. legislation.
The CBO report takes issue with previous studies--particularly those from the RAND Corporation and the Center for Information Technology Leadership--that forecast huge financial savings if providers widely adopted I.T. and used it appropriately.
The report also contends that while large delivery systems may recognize savings from electronic health records, other providers may not similarly benefit. “Office-based physicians in particular may see no benefit if they purchase such a product--and may even suffer financial harm. Even though the use of health I.T. could generate cost savings for the health system at large that might offset the EHR’s cost, many physicians might not be able to reduce their office expenses or increase their revenue sufficiently to pay for it.”
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