US Lags Behind in Medical IT
by Matthew ~ September 10th, 2007. Filed under: News.There was an interesting article on the Daily Kos over the weekend, “EHR, Electronic Medical Records - The Doc Loses” by J.D. Wolverton which critiques the state of American electronic medical records (EMR). Wolverton says, “The US government has issued standards via HIPAA. These work because they primarily focus on revenue issues, but standardizing the medical chart itself remains a problem. HL7 specifies how data is transferred from one place to another, but HIPAA doesn’t specify how the data is viewed or entered by the end users. We have standards, but it’s left to physicians, hospitals and other medical providers to figure out how to pay for it without getting any funding for it.”
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