“One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective.”
The purpose of that office is to setup University studies (the same people that do all these studies already), to avoid stuff like this:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/438238
$3.25 billion a year lining the pockets of surgeons for nothing more than what amounts to a placebo pill.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020712075415.htm