“Mainly because of the HITECH Act, part of the economic stimulus legislation passed earlier this year, the U.S. is now finally heading down the road toward widespread health IT adoption and a national health information network. But the discussion about this strategy often gets bogged down in such details as what constitutes “meaningful use” of EHRs.
A longer-term view is provided by a new report from the global consultancy firm CSC. This report compares the health IT adoption effort in the U.S. to the experiences of the U.K., Denmark, and the Netherlands. Overall, the report says, the U.S. is doing all the right things to replicate the best practices gleaned from the European experience.”
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Ken Terry, BNET Healthcare, 31 July 2009
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