Three times during the last week — first in his State of the Union, then in his weekly radio address on Saturday, then during a campaign stop at a Baptist hospital in Arkansas on Monday — President Bush touted technology as a way to reduce healthcare costs. “By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs and improve care,” said Bush. The federal government has been trying to take the lead in this area, computerizing records for the military and linking more than 60 disparate databases to provide doctors with on-demand access to a patient’s healthcare history.
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Feds Eye IT for Reducing Healthcare Costs
Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski January 28, 2004 09:30 AMThree times during the last week — first in his State of the Union, then in his weekly radio address on Saturday, then during a campaign stop at a Baptist hospital in Arkansas on Monday — President Bush touted technology as a way to reduce healthcare costs. “By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs and improve care,” said Bush. The federal government has been trying to take the lead in this area, computerizing records for the military and linking more than 60 disparate databases to provide doctors with on-demand access to a patient’s healthcare history.