[HEALTH-IT World ENews] Brailer 'Disappointed' by Congress' Failure to Fund Health-IT

Brailer 'Disappointed' by Congress' Failure to Fund Health-IT, But Sees 'No Impact'

By Neil Versel, contributing editor

December 7, 2004

The elimination of $50 million for health-IT demonstration projects from the 2005 federal budget is merely an inconvenient bump in the road, but it should serve as a wake-up call to all those involved in promoting an interoperable national infrastructure, according to national health-IT czar David Brailer, M.D.

"I'm disappointed," Brailer said Friday at Evanston (Ill.) Hospital. "I'm also confident it's not going to have an impact. The National Health Information Network is going to happen next year," he added.

"Fifty million dollars is not going to change America's adoption of health information technology, and this is a multibillion-dollar endeavor," Brailer said.

(The American Health Information Management Association has responded to Congress' failure a bit more vigorously. See related story in today's edition.) ...

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