After 25 years of converting paper documents to digital there should be some
inkling of common sense.

The key sentence for me in this article is:

Computerized records have yet to prove more efficient “because the
commercial marketplace does not favor optimal products,” creating programs
to focus more on codes and billing than doctors’ needs and patient care,
they said.

The accounting/billing departments at hospitals and healthcare centers
control the budget and have become the decision makers. We vendors often end
up talking only to them.
Work flow efficiency comes for the medical professional and the healthcare
records managers when the system is designed around their workflow needs.
-- 
John R Glover
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Peter Kurilecz <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Montreal Gazette
>
> "WASHINGTON – New electronic record systems installed in thousands of U.S.
> hospitals have done little to rein in skyrocketing healthcare costs,
> Harvard
> University researchers said in a study released Friday."
>
> "The researchers analyzed data from the industry’s Healthcare Information
> and Management Systems Society, hospital reports on costs incurred through
> the Medicare insurance program for the elderly and the 2008 Dartmouth
> Health
> Atlas, which compiles government health data.
>
> Their study was released by the nonprofit Physicians for a National Health
> Program, which backs a single-payer U.S. health insurance."
>
> http://bit.ly/Y0Agy
>
>
>
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