Posted on 08/21/2009 6:48:26 AM PDT by La Lydia
The Obama administration unveiled $1.2 billion in federal grants for electronic health records systems on Thursday, the first wave of funding under a health-care reform plan to create vast records-sharing networks aimed at cutting costs and improving care in the coming decade. The administration has described such computer systems as a crucial step in overhauling the nation's expensive health-care system. It allocated more than $36 billion in the landmark stimulus legislation to spur adoption of the equipment by doctors and hospitals along with the development of the networks that will link them all together...
...about half the grant money would help establish 70 technology-extension centers that will assist hospitals and other medical providers in choosing and utilizing the equipment. The rest is directed to state initiatives to create or expand medical information sharing networks...
President Obama, White House advisers and some advocates have said the adoption of the computer systems could help transform a system that is still remarkably reliant on paper and pens. Advocates say that proper use of digital records would make health care more efficient, cutting down on duplicative tests, unneeded procedures and harmful drug interactions.
Some studies have estimated that the universal adoption of electronic health technology could save more than $77 billion a year, a figure that the Obama administration has used widely to justify the plan. But the Office of Management and Budget has questioned the validity of that research, in part because of the complexity and unknowns involved in implementing such massive networks quickly and, in many cases, virtually from scratch...
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Government trying to promote efficiency?
HA!
Guess who’s heavily invested and advertising for this technology?
GE.
Follow the money.
I am working with a company that has already developed a working product.
I bet your info can already be accessed WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.
why not have individual portable data files?
This is like that old lucas movie THX-1138(number?) where all people are just numbers handled by massive databanks
You already are. Look at your SSN.
How conveeenient....the feds can keep track of which sickly elderly or weak premies are costing too much to maintain. One click of the computer key from D. C. can tell the doctor/hospital to terminate their ObamaCare...no need for a “death panel” to discuss the cases. Hitler would admire the efficiency of this plan.
Just what I want. A fedgov that seeks to set up a Death Panel having access to everyone's medical records to help make life-and-death decisions all that more efficient.
BTW, recall that Newt Gingrich stood with Hillary a few years back for federal funding of a similar proposal.
But hopefully, this will be just as effective of a systems rollout as the IRS modernization was...
Of course to work will be done by C.O.0.
Contributors Of 0bama
It will take years and years for 0bama to pay off the massive debt required to buy the white house with money from both domestic and foreign contributors.
How much of this money will go to offshore technology companies? How many of the 70 technology centers will be in Hydrabad?
Actually, this function to make the “death panels” more efficient.
The department that will do this has already been created and funded in the stimulus bill.
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Does anyone see a potential problem with so-called government security on a massive database that cover all residents in the US, even those who are not legal residents?
Seems like a perfect data mining operation for either crooks or for Washington gangsters.
In order the seize control of the country and impose something like martial law, they need to know where we all are and whether we are in any condition to fight back.
What?? Suddenly hospitals don't have purchasing departments and quality IT departments?
Sounds like an "approved list" of vendors will be chosen, and all purchases will be quoted through those vendors.
Pathetic, and should be in violation of multiple bid laws.
Not to mention that it doesn't take $600 million of public funds to open 70 "centers". Probably modeled after SBA centers, which only dole out $$ to favored parties.
Looks like they are all for overturning Roe! That case was all about the “right to privacy” between a patient and their doctor. Now they want to cancel that “right” and create a government data base.
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