Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Reducing the cost of health care -- “Information exchange and Interoperability”

http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/hlthaff.w5.10v1.pdf

Here the claim is made that going beyond simply having greater use of electronic medical records to a system with “fully standardized HIEI [health care information exchange and interoperability could yield a net value of $77.8 billion per year.” The claim is supported with data highlighting the current cost of Information exchange. It although it seems unlikely that the authors have a vested financial interest in seeing the change as previously stated many companies stand to gain by providing the services require for the switch.

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