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  WP: The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
Interesting Developments Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD on Saturday May 16, 2009 @ 09:25 PM
from the interesting-developments dept.
"How an Industry Lobby Scored a Swift, Unexpected Victory by Channeling Billions to Electronic Records" The Washington Post has an eye-opening article on what really happened with the Health IT stimulus bill. It looks like Buckminister Fuller's GRUNCH of Giants is alive and well. I now see the connection between HIMSS, Partners and AMIA. I've often wondered why AMIA has always been dominated by the Northeast/Massachutsetts crowd, why things like the Linux Medical News Freedom Award has been given such a cold reception year after year, and why AMIA leaders seem to hold such contradictory positions to AMIA's mission. Things like government intervention bad (but we lobbied for it secretly), taxpayer money good, proprietary vendors good, physicians and taxpayers in perpetual financial servitude good. Now I know. That the health IT in the stimulus bill isn't a social experiment at best (I'm being charitable) or simply a wealth transfer to proprietary vendors and government at worst is evident. Prove me wrong. Digg this article



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    Re: WP: The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
    by Mark Spohr, MD on Monday May 18, 2009 @ 07:52 AM
    Interesting meta-analysis of costs and benefits of HIT verifies that the data is thin for any benefit.

    http://www.health.org.uk/publications/research_reports/health_technology.html

    Interesting quote from the publication:
    "From this review we can conclude that successful implementation of HIT systems likely requires the
    following actions:
    • choose a system that is intuitive to use and that requires little training for users
    • choose a system that can be modified and developed easily
    • ensure that the decision-making process for developing or selecting a system is
    participatory, but once this decision has been taken ensure that implementation is
    directed and driven."

    The second point sounds like a recipe for open source.

    Regards,
    Mark
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    Re: WP: The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
    by Ed Dodds on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @ 07:55 PM
    http://twurl.nl/2atds3 CCHIT Attempts to Set Record Straight
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