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

To: dybdahl who wrote (18379)	7/18/2010 8:32:21 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 42652

few people really know what will happen Agreed.

To: dybdahl who wrote (18379)	7/19/2010 12:11:59 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

I have talked to several health care IT investors from different continents who consider Obamacare to be the best thing that happened to the health case IT industry, and they have figures to support that. As an IT person who has been around doing this stuff since before it was cool, I doubt that government-imposed IT -- on ANY entity -- is a good thing. I met with a neurologist last week for whom we're installing a billing system. I asked him whether he was interested in EMR and his response was, "Never, ever will I get involved with that shit. I'll retire first". This isn't the first physician I've heard with this attitude. He was serious, as was a family practice doc who used a remarkably similar phrase a couple weeks ago when we discussed it. If an entity's management wants to impose IT, that is a different thing. But for the US government to do it is pretty lame, and ultimately, is a project that is apt to fail. The track record isn't good. Once again, ROI is the determining factor. Or should be. When an entity determines for itself that IT can benefit THAT ENTITY, it will make the expenditure. That government is having to pony up billions to try and force IT on organizations that don't want it looks like a precursor to a failed program. I've witnessed a number of half-hearted attempts doing precisely the same thing on various organizations and they pretty much don't work out well. What's really funny is the same legislation (Obamacare) that would put our medical records on shiny new computers creates a flow of hundreds of millions of paper 1099s to taxpayers for all manner of payments -- a flow that even the IRS has said will not generate enough revenue to pay for the additional workload.