Thread: Spending for health care
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Old 02-13-2009, 10:30 AM   #10
Flint
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Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system.
This is light-years from practical implementation. And I say that as a person working on the front lines of integrating healthcare IT systems--I'm a PACS admin, I work under the IHE umbrella of interoperability standards such as DICOM and HL7 (which are poorly implemented by vendors who see propietary functionality as leverage against their competitors, and frankly, the customer having control of their own data). Healthcare IT is struggling to progress past the dark ages.
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