“As the Federal stimulus bill is winding its way through the Washington sausage factory, some details of the thousands of individual new spending programs manage to get attention from the press. It seems like we’ll be getting a “National Coordinator of Health Information Technology” as part of the stimulus. Of course, the precise purpose of the new bureaucracy is not yet known, but the goal seems to be to have all Americans get hooked on electronic medical records. (Never mind that the majority of health care expenses arise from defensive style of medicine, whereas clinicians order unnecessary tests to shield themselves from trial lawyers, and from caring for the growing elderly population.)”
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MedGadget, 11 February 2009
