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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (18329)	7/12/2010 5:56:44 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"Do you think American hospitals are without IT? " No, but IT itself is not a solution to anything. Socialist health systems monopolize, and are therefore able to connect the dots in their data with almost 100% data coverage. I didn't intend to say that this gives a better data quality, but it gives more (bigger amounts of) interconnected data. And as Google keeps saying: More data is often better than finding intelligent ways of digging into them. I have evaluated several U.S. hospital's IT systems, and many ICUs have more than 10 different IT systems that they need to log into, in order to manage/edit their data - this is bad for data quality. Even worse, many of these IT systems do not provide an overview, they are basically like modernized versions of health IT anno 1990. It's really awful, and prevents a lot of efficiency gains. And as many of them say, if you get them off the record: The important information, when moving a patient to another department, is on paper with the patient. I think that your perception of IT in American health care is skewed. I don't know what Obama's plans will do to health care IT in USA, I mainly compare the pre-Obama state of health care IT in USA to other systems that I know.