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Today's Information Week contains an interesting article about the Bush Administrations new coordinator of health care IT, Dr. David Brailer.
The article starts this way:

"There's a growing sense among members of the health-care industry that if they don't take action soon to better use IT to improve health care and lower costs, the federal government will dictate policies and possibly even tech standards. And it's a sense of dread, thanks to the fresh memory of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a set of tough federal rules governing the way medical information is gathered, stored, shared, and protected that has forced considerable compliance-related spending."

Now HIPAA, mentioned above, has increased the cost of health care so far. So, someone thinks by threatening a 'son of hipaa', which will increase costs yet again, industry will be rushed into spending more money to lower costs?

More than likely the health care IT providers will be rushing to government offices trying to get whatever their software does written into regulations as a must have!

posted by Wayne D. Wilson @ 3:07 PM