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| Federal Deadline Hobbling eHealth IT Rollout
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| from the you-can't-hold-servers-together-with-red-tape dept.
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| posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 02, @12:07 (Government)
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/03/02/1641223/Federal-Deadline-Hobbling-eHealth-IT-Rollout|
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Lucas123 writes "A federal deadline that begins next year and requires
hospitals to prove they're meaningfully using electronic health records
[0]will lead to technical problems and data errors affecting patient
care, say politicians and top IT professionals responsible for the
deployments. Physicians and hospitals have until the end of 2011 to
receive the maximum federal incentive monies to deploy the technology. If
not deployed by 2015, they face penalties through cuts in Medicare
reimbursements. 'I think we have nontechnology people making decisions
about technology,' said Gregg Veltri, CIO at Denver Health. 'I wonder if
anybody understands the reality of IT systems and how complex they are,
especially when they're integrated together. You're going to sacrifice
quality if you increase the speed [of the rollout].'"
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/03/02/1641223
Links:
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9162438/Deadline_for_e_health_rollout_may_do_more_harm_than_help
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