Effective use of information technology to reduce medical errors requires identifying the cause of the medical errors and the clinical transformation—the change in how we clinically do something—that reduces the probability of the error occurring.
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The most important lesson in medical care comes from a bank robber who stole more than $2 million and spent more than half his life in jail.
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From the signing of healthcare reform legislation to the release of final rules for “meaningful use,” events in 2010 are driving toward a true transformation in the delivery of healthcare in the United States.
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Regulation of HIT tools as medical devices is currently premature. The regulations must be constructed to advance HIT use while simultaneously protecting patients.
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The future of health IT over the next five years is in the development of these “glue” applications that allow the seamless linking of large, robust system, such as EMRs or laboratory applications, so that end users can utilize these tools in a coherent, patient-centric manner.
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Our great country is on an unsustainable healthcare cost curve that threatens our ability to bounce back from the severe economic challenges we now face.
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The appointment of a healthcare policy expert David Blumenthal, MD, rather than an informaticist, signals that the Obama Administration is serious about promoting the use of health IT through policy changes that impact how healthcare is delivered in the United States.
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The recent survey of over four thousand hospitals found no connection between computerization and reduced costs. In addition, increased computerization led to only small improvements in the quality of care.
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So what is “meaningful use?” Perhaps former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart defined it best: “It is hard to define, but I know it when I see it”
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If George Steinbrenner expects the Yankees to win the World Series every year considering he spends 40% more than any other team on payroll, is it wrong for us to expect the same from our spending on healthcare? Should we not receive the best care in the world?
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