Electronic Health Records and the Stimulus
From and Article printed in the NY Times February 10th written by Steve Lohr
“In his press conference Monday night, President Obama went out of his way to explain why that money belonged in the economic stimulus package. It is, he said, a job-creating investment in both the present and the future that will improve the quality of care and save lives.
“But in a letter delivered Tuesday to the White House and Congressional offices, 50 of the nation?s leading experts in electronic health records ? most of them physicians themselves warned that ?an historic opportunity to achieve quality and efficiency gains through health information technology will be lost, unless the government channels the spending carefully.
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