I have to say I agree here 100%. Problem is we have people making decisions that I don’t believe completely understand technology and the value, not only in healthcare, but look at the shambles of the FDA and SEC, they need it too. Other countries are supporting technology big time, so what’s wrong with us? Are we going to sit here and stay in the 60s?
Interesting fact that when Wall Street fell I seemed to be one of the few bloggers focusing on the software end of things and after a few months now, I am seeing more folks on the web also alluding to the same issue, you can run the code but when there’s no assets to tag to the expressions, well we know that tune, and by the way, Wall Street and the Health Insurance business invests heavily in IT and business intelligence too, just that greed got in the way and the expressions written were out of hand. Algorithms from data processes run about 90% of our lives today, it is what it is.
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We need smart people in strategic places. It’s almost embarrassing to hear Desmond Tutu talk about rolling out healthcare plans for undeveloped countries and alluding to not making the same mistakes made in the west.
The entire report from Senator Whitehouse can be read here. We have a doctor in the Senate who I have written about several times and included his video, but again what is this that Congress doesn’t get? Watch the video at the link above.
Can we just take the politics out of this and get the smart people in place to get the country back on it’s feet? I’m beginning to really feel that we have too many folks in positions of authority that don’t want to accept the word “change” and read up. BD
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) on Feb. 4 spoke on the Senate floor amid rumors of support for an amendment to strip health information technology funding from the economic stimulus bill.
"Of all the dumb mistakes that we could make in this bill, that would be the very dumbest of all," Whitehouse told colleagues. "It would harm the immediate element of job creation that is important to this infrastructure. It would slow down the development of a national health information infrastructure. And it would compromise our ability to deal with the health care crisis that is looming just behind the economic crisis we are dealing with now."
Senator: Don't Strip I.T. From Bill
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