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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (11472)	11/18/2009 11:15:44 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 42652

>> We won't get there unless we start. If we don't start now, then when? There are, no doubt, many people working on this. But the problem is the documents come from many different sources with little in the way of standards. I'm not advocating we NEVER do electronic records. And there are elements of it that are productive even now. But using taxpayer funds to force it just doesn't seem to me to be productive. Right now, if you did a cost/benefit analysis that included discounting the savings from EMR, I think it wouldn't pay. Five years from now that COULD be different. Or even sooner, I'll admit I don't know when. There IS a certain advantage to having a lot of eyes trained on the problem. But the cost, up front and continuing, is massive and it is very hard to pinpoint where actual savings are going come from. We know the costs are high, but where do you find the savings? Right now, the big advantage cited is "we don't lose charts anymore". It takes a whole lotta lost charts to cover the cost. The technology will come and I don't oppose it. I just think the government spending $20 Billion or whatever to force it to happen now, before it is ready for prime time, is a mistake.

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