10 years ago when I was consulting in HC IT, I never heard anyone suggest public funds for electronic medical records investments. Is that even discussed now?
I read more closely than usual but still don’t know what “IT” is (unless it’s Clara Bow).
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Half of Canadian hospitals still don't even have a CT scanner. An MRI is unthinkable, only one per major city in each province.
Besides, with all the doom and gloom talk about a collapsing American economy, talk of government run health care will fade away. Nobody will have jobs (except illegal Mexican aliens) to pay the higher taxes Hillary will need, and all the doctors (nurses as well) will leave the country to work in more profitable places, where they won't be forced to work for wages that won't even pay for the student loans they racked up after 7 years of med school.
It's that very reason Canadian med school graduates have been leaving Canada for the past 15 years, leaving that country so desperate for doctors they import them from 3rd world countries where med school only takes 6 months, and knowing how to read and speak english is optional.
When my employer took the IT plunge, one of the rationales they used was that it would drastically cut down on paper. Now, some 6-7 years later, they are using a helluva lot MORE paper.
However, we have patient information much more readily available, which does improve patient care in many respects(although it is a lot more work than the archaic “paper” charts).