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...Health care in the U.S. costs a jaw-dropping $2 trillion annually, or more than $6,600 for every man, woman and child in the country. Streamlining the industry by eliminating medical errors, labor costs and general clunkiness caused by paperwork alone could save an estimated $300 billion each year, according to the national coordinator for health information technology under former President George W. Bush. The consensus, of course, is that we must go paperless: link hospitals, doctors' offices and clinics via an interactive digital grid that allows patient histories, test results and other data to be called...
...That was the goal of a study published March 25 in the New England Journal of Medicine, led by a team of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital. What the investigators found was not encouraging. Currently, only about 1 in 10 hospitals nationwide has adopted even basic electronic record-keeping - and when you look inside that one statistic, the situation gets bleaker...
...investigators began by sending questionnaires to roughly 4,500 general hospitals around the country, asking about their use of 32 different features of health information technology - including electronic patient histories, doctors' notes, lab and X-ray results, prescriptions, drug alerts and nursing orders. "We sent out the survey to the hospital CEOs," says health-policy expert Catherine DesRoches of Massachusetts General Hospital, who participated in the study, "and about 63% responded." (Read "The Move to Digital Medical Records Begins in Tampa...
...Director of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, Blumenthal was a pioneer in health policy, said Zeckhauser, who has authored several papers with Blumenthal and taught him as a student...
Catherine M. DesRoches, of the Institute for Health Policy at Mass. General, said that when the Bush Administration first announced its goal to digitize medical records by 2014, there was no “baseline data” on current levels of digitized records...