Obama stimulus package
Healthcare IT–growth drivers
Jun/03/09 20:03
As I have discussed several times before, there seems to be a significant amount of activity in health information technology. President Obama’s stimulus package includes $19 billion to fund hospitals and individual physicians to upgrade their IT systems, specifically to migrate from paper-based patient records to electronic health records. In the near future, it would be possible for a patient record to be shared between all parts of the healthcare system. For example, patient with a severe trauma can be treated more quickly and effectively, if the emergency room had access to the patients record knowing what health issues may be critical to decisions about treating the patient. Having that information available within minutes can be crucial to saving the patient’s life. Anyone knowledgeable about the healthcare system in the US probably can list out many more examples where an online patient record can be the difference between success and failure in treating a patient.
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