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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
By Staff Reporters
On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [ARRA]. According to some, the law provides an opportunity to transform healthcare in the United States.
HIT
The law also provides $19 billion in health information technology [HIT] funding to ensure widespread adoption and use of interoperable HIT systems like the electronic health records funding provision. But, as ME-P readers are aware; this is not apparently for electronic Dental Records [eDRs]; and CCHIT is no advocate of professional diversity.
HITECH
Obama’s signing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act [a portion of the stimulus package] recognized the importance of HIT as the foundation for health care reform and cost savings.
Assessment
Is this report correct? Read all 187 pages and decide.
Link: HITECH http://democrats.science.house.gov/Media/File/Commdocs/HealthIT%20Bill.pdf
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Filed under: Health Law & Policy, Information Technology | Tagged: ADA, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ARRA, CCHIT, Darrell Pruitt, dentistry, eDRs, EHRs, EMRs, Health I.T., Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health, HIT, HITECH, obama |
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EHRs – Ethics and Culture
In these days of modern travel and instant communication anywhere around the world, international contacts are so pervasive and intermingled that a future homogenous world appears to be a possibility. As aboriginal languages disappear as fast as genetic diversity, anthropologists might wonder if cultural values found in various countries – distilled from ignoble beginnings and through centuries of strife – will continue to exert influence on accepted mores as even more societies adopt modern technological tools for communicating.
So I ask: In the context of healthcare information technology, will differences in professional acceptance of electronic health records – based on aged ethics concerning the sacred doctor-patient relationship – make a difference in their adoption in two widely separated first-world societies?
Let’s compare today’s news from two similar countries of colonial origin that could not be farther apart physically: Australia and the US.
I found a fresh article this morning from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (abc.net.au) about EHRs titled “Standoff over patients’ records.”
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2008/s2513794.htm
It concerns Australian physicians who are willing to go to jail before revealing the details of their patients’ medical records to government authorities.
The comparatively fresh news about EHRs in the US is from the Triangle Business Journal from Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina.
Its title is “Report: Wal-Mart to offer doctors ‘low-cost’ electronic health records.”
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/03/09/daily61.html
G’ day, Mate.
D. Kellus Pruitt; DDS
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ONCHIT
David Blumenthal was appointed the new Director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT [ONCHIT]. For now, there is no word on Robert Kolodner’s new role, although John Halamka MD, the CIO at Harvard University reports that he’ll likely run the Obama administration stimulus package which gave the ONC $2 billion as part of the HITECH bill, written about previously on this Medical Executive-Post.
Best.
Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA
http://www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.com
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Hope and Dr. Pruitt,
Are the doctors that want $25,000-$45,000 from the Obama Administration for eMRs – courtesy of HITECH 2009 – the same as those who complain about doctor ranking websites and rating services?
Hypocritical: Can’t have it both ways; folks.
Stuart
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Stu,
According to Dana Blankenhorn of ZDnet, “meaningful use” one of the vaguest terms in the HITECH Act under which doctors and hospitals must automate, is about to be defined.
Link: http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=2279
Leeds
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Leeds and Readers,
Can anyone opine on their experience with health care data sets that are interpretable – whether the data were created by eHR technologies from GE Centricity, NextGen, RMD Networks, Epic, Google Health, or PracticeFusion.
Lawrence
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Subscribers,
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [ARRA] is supposed to take some of the pressure off of medical providers by subsidizing their HIT purchases. The problem is, without a change in how healthcare is paid for, won’t the bulk of the savings accrue to the insurance companies and payers – not the MDs?
Sidney
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