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Old 02-12-2009, 06:20 PM   #83
TheMercenary
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I am not against computerized medical records. That is not the point here. The point is does it decrease costs? Does it save time? My response is not at first. Maybe over a long period of time it will. Start up costs are EXTREMELY expensive. A brand new Dell computer is now at every bedside all over the hospital all connected via hard wire to a main server, bet that was cheap. I know that in many cases it will decrease medical errors and that in the long run saves millions alone. But with all good comes some trade offs.

And then there are the people who are making money off of it, the same people telling us all how great it is going to be for us:

Quote:
Physicians who specialize in emergency medicine are disproportionately represented in the ranks of local and national health IT leaders. Examples include:

Dr. Brian Keaton, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians and an emergency medicine physician in Akron, Ohio, leads the Northeast Ohio Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO).
Dr. Edward Barthell, executive vice president of strategy and clinical affairs at Infinity HealthCare in Wisconsin and a practicing emergency medicine physician, is a founder of the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (HIE).
Dr. John Halamka, an emergency medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, is chief information officer at Harvard Medical School and chairman of the Healthcare IT Standards Panel chartered by the federal government.
Dr. Craig Feied and Dr. Mark Smith, emergency medicine physicians at Washington Hospital Center, were among the creators of the Azyxxi software that Microsoft acquired for its foray into health IT.
http://govhealthit.com/Articles/2007...ding-edge.aspx

I am sure they gave it to Microsoft at a discount, you know for the good of the patient and skyrocketing costs of healthcare.
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