[Med-privacy] Obama

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  OBAMA'S BIG IDEA: DIGITAL HEALTH RECORDS
  [SOURCE: CNNMoney, AUTHOR: David Goldman]
  President-elect Barack Obama, as part of the effort to revive the 
economy, has proposed a massive effort to modernize health care by 
making all health records standardized and electronic. Here's the 
audacious plan: Computerize all health records within five years. The 
quality of health care for all Americans gets a big boost, and costs 
decline. Sounds good. But it won't be easy. In fact, many hurdles stand 
in the way. Only about 8% of the nation's 5,000 hospitals and 17% of 
its 800,000 physicians currently use the kind of common computerized 
record-keeping systems that Obama envisions for the whole nation. And 
some experts say that serious concerns about patient privacy must be 
addressed first. Finally, the country suffers a dearth of skilled 
workers necessary to build and implement the necessary technology.
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HEALTH RECORDS

 [SOURCE: CNNMoney, AUTHOR: David Goldman]

 President-elect Barack Obama, as part of the effort to revive the
economy, has proposed a massive effort to modernize health care by
making all health records standardized and electronic. Here's the
audacious plan: Computerize all health records within five years. The
quality of health care for all Americans gets a big boost, and costs
decline. Sounds good. But it won't be easy. In fact, many hurdles
stand in the way. Only about 8% of the nation's 5,000 hospitals and
17% of its 800,000 physicians currently use the kind of common
computerized record-keeping systems that Obama envisions for the whole
nation. And some experts say that serious concerns about patient
privacy must be addressed first. Finally, the country suffers a dearth
of skilled workers necessary to build and implement the necessary
technology.

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