While the pot is still simmering as to when Australia will finally introduce ehealth and new IT systems to link medical facilitities throughout the country, US. hospitals are not waiting around to ponder the question, they are into it, now!
Federal Government support for US. doctors comes in the form of a subsidy of $40,000 each, over five years, to update their IT health system, to have their patients listed on new digital ehealth records, that will marry information into hospital records receiving system, at an extimated cost of $19 billion.
So enthusiastic are US. major hospitals to retain local medical centers, Gps, and specialists linked to their IT systems, hospitals are offering further subsidies over and above Federal grants, of another $44,000 for each doctor, over the same five year period, covering 7,000 affiliated doctors.
The digital links now being forged will bind doctors and hospital groups to provide the very best care, saving time, travelling and some expense, now being duplicated due to lack of computerisation.
It may consolidate some healthcare attitudes owing to pace of ehealth development. Indeed, the rationale for investing in digital ehealth is that technology can be used to help monitor and measure results of care, providing evidence needed to shift renumeration away from the current fee-for-service system, which encourages more tests, more precedures and more pills prescribed.. Acknowledge nytimes.com Geoff.
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