Whoa. Howard Fineman on MSNBC: Tonight Obama was “tired, with same old talking points... he missed an opportunity here.”
It’s 1 thing for me, private citizen, to say Cambridge Police acted stupidly. It’s another for the President to say it from the White House.
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One of the great things about getting my TV from FIOS is that here on Long Island they don’t carry MSNBC.
Obama’s economic stimulus plan talks about upgrading hospitals and doctor’s offices to electronic medical records to deliver better healthcare, save lives, and save money.”
Linda Gorman, who runs the Health Care Policy Center at the excellent Independence Institute in Golden, Colorado, writes in with some important caveats over computerized medical records: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjcwZTFkZWU5MzVjN2Q5OTg3ZGZhZjQ2MGFkYmY0MWU=
IT is hugely, grossly expensive and is not secure. The IT introduction in the UK is failing. It doesn’t work. It has cost billions. [link] It is not secure [link]. The VA patient record system has problem that are not widely discussed. [link] According to the GAO, the cost savings claims made for it cannot be substantiated.