[Med-privacy] Berwick: EMRs, etc.

[Tim Churches]

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On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 10:34, pmarshall wrote:
>    January 9, 2004
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>     Meeting Highlights Importance of Health Care IT in Quality
> Improvement
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>    The national health care system must undergo massive changes that
> include IT for chronic disease care and electronic medical records for
>    tracking patients throughout the system, said Donald Berwick,
> president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, at an
>    Institute of Medicine summit this week, Health-IT World reports.
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>    The IOMs Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit in Washington, D.C.,
> was intended to find ways to address some of the most costly
>     medical conditions, including heart failure, diabetes, depression,
> chronic pain and asthma, by focusing on quality. Berwick called for
>     better data sharing and knowledge, as well as information technology
> for managing chronic disease.
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>    Berwick said little progress had been made on a national level to
> make care more patient-centric, and he urged attendees to begin a
>    grassroots quality initiative in each community. He noted that
> geographic data revealed a lack of association between outcomes and
> money
>    spent per patient, rejecting the notion that a lack of funding is the
> cause of quality problems in the U.S. health care system. Berwick said
>    health care must undergo changes in accordance with the IOMs 2001
> report, Crossing the Quality Chasm.
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>    Build health care infrastructures, Berwick said. Adopt the uniform
> electronic medical record in your community. Lets make health care
>    as modernized in its recordkeeping as your local pizza joint is.

Is this being posted because you agree with Berwick's position, or
because you have a problem with it? If the latter, which bits exactly,
and why?

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Tim C

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