Will computer technology fix health care?

That's the title of an HND article of mine, posted on May 2^nd.

The big deal here is becoming what the Feds call a "Meaningful User" of electronic health records (EHR). Any health care facility that obtains this designation is eligible for a piece of the $19 billion stimulus cash set aside under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

While EHRs should improve health care, there are massive problems to overcome, including the high costs of making the conversion from paper records, security issues, and a critical shortage of IT specialists trained in this aspect of computer technology.

Of course, even if every facility switched over to EHRs, that won't help one bit with the bigger problem of a physician shortage.

Read the complete article.

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