Putting Money Where Your Mouth Is
All the Presidential hopefuls are singing from the same hymnal that EMR is part of the solution to improve healthcare quality and cut costs. I wonder if the next President will put his money where his mouth is and better fund the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The current administration set the '08 budget at $61.3 million, the same as last year, which was down from $125 million the previous year.
This anemic amount will further slow efforts such as the National Health Information Network (NHIN), pilot programs and an architecture standard for personal health records (PHR). Obviously government won't make reality Bush's EHR-for-every-citizen-by-2014 pipedream.
This gives healthcare IT vendors a PR opportunity to highlight how they are making this vision a reality. Consider thought leadership PR for your executives to comment on the government fiscal short-comings, and how the private sector led by companies such as yourselves are solving healthcare's problems.
Tags: EHR, Electronic+Medical+Record, EMR, Healthcare+PR, Kolodner, Medical+PR, NHIN, Online+PR, PHR, RHIOPosted by Shawn Whalen on January 3, 2008 at 5:04 PM
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