Health IT Czar Calls on Private Sector

Health IT Czar Calls on Private Sector
By M.L. Baker
November 19, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO—While government will provide incentives and
muscle, the private sector must ultimately make functional health
information technology a widespread reality, national health IT
coordinator David Brailer told a crowd of attendees at a health care IT
conference Thursday.

Health IT, particularly for EHRs (electronic
health records), promises to make health care more effective and
efficient by tracking the medical care a patient receives from different
providers and by supplying doctors and nurses with relevant information,
such as drug counterindications or preventive care recommendations,
while they care for a patient.

Nonetheless, physicians, particularly ones in small outpatient settings, have not embraced healthIT.

"My goal is not to get EHRs in..."

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