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S. 1693, The Wired for Health Care Quality Act
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safuller747@msn.com
Working in the health care industry for over 30 years I see so many areas of concern. Being part of an EMR/PM implementation team, working directly with hospitals and clinics on the operational workflow issues and seeing how 'symptom based medicine' as become the norm, directed by insurance on what and what can not be done for the patient, something has to change in order for the people in the U.S. to get quality healthcare at a reasonable cost. I will get off my soap box - but I am willing to assist in making this changes and I do believe that the electronic world is a major part of the solution.
Thank you Shirley
James Mhyre, MD
We have a budget at the federal level this year of $61M to support healthcare electronic communication. Canada will spend approximately $400M for similar services in 2007. Canada is farther along with their national health network. We recognize that more investment in infrastructure, standards, and interoperability is needed without wasting time and resources with too many false starts and orphaned projects. Can HITSP and AHIC lead the way? This bill should provide some funding to support those efforts. Maybe it will be Microsoft and Google setting the de facto standards and the federal government can stand down!
Daniel Castro
ITIF, a non-partisan think tank recently released a report on the benefits of electronic health records, the current obstacles to adoption, and strategies to overcome these obstacles. One recommendation was to establish national standards for health information, which this bill will help establish. The report is available online at
http://www.itif.org/files/HealthIT.pdf
Barb Clark , R.N.
I am very concerned about the upcoming National Health Information Network. I have put up information about this on my web-site at dub dub dub BarbClark dot org.