The High Cost of Health Care
A great editorial from the New York Times left me wondering: what is Microsoft doing to help? Is there a doctor in the house?
Here's an extract from the NYT editorial...
Information Technologies. The American health care system lags well behind other sectors of the economy — and behind foreign medical systems — in adopting computers, electronic health records and information-sharing technologies that can greatly boost productivity. There is little doubt that widespread computerization could greatly reduce the paperwork burden on doctors and hospitals, head off medication errors, and reduce the costly repetition of diagnostic tests as patients move from one doctor to another. Without an infusion of capital, the transition from paper records is not apt to happen very quickly. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/opinion/25sun1.html?pagewanted=all
