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Doctors Say Data Fees are Blocking Health Reform
As they move to exchange patient information with hospitals and other healthcare partners, doctors are suffering sticker shock: The vendors of the healthcare software want thousands of dollars to unlock the data so they can be shared. It may take an act of Congress to provide relief. The fees are thwarting the goals of the $30 billion federal push to get doctors and hospitals to digitize health records. The exorbitant prices to transmit and receive data, providers and IT specialists say, can amount to billions a year. And the electronic health record industry is increasingly reliant on this revenue.
Most doctors and hospitals have now switched to electronic health records, or EHRs. But, the information is often stuck in computers run by hundreds of competing healthcare software companies — with incompatible products and scant incentive to make them compatible, or “interoperable,” as the industry calls it. The additional costs were not foreseen during the bipartisan congressional push to create the federal incentive program. The expense is now imperiling the broad efforts to reform healthcare and adding to the host of technical obstacles that already hamper the flow of information.
Source: Arthur Allen Politico [2/23/15]
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Big Data Will Supplement, Not Replace EBM
Podiatrist Dr. Wenjay Sung said, “As all kinds of information are being collected about every aspect of our lives, the data generated at this exorbitant rate can lead to advancements in research and healthcare. That is the idea behind big data” and its disruptive benefits for the healthcare industry. The term encompasses a searchable vast data collection for relative information in order to quickly identify trends. Like all other disruptive innovations, the focus is speed. However, medicine, unlike most industries, has never been quick to adapt to trends.”
“Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is facing a disruptive force. However, it will never be fully uprooted; much like clinical-based medicine continues to exist today. Big data has the advantages of size and speed compared to evidence-based medicine. However, big data alone will not solve any issues for healthcare problems that exist for individual patients and communities. Proper implementation of automation, analytics, and action, can help properly leverage big data for new solutions to healthcare models.” Said Dr. Sung.
Source: KevinMD.com [3/15/15]
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