“For years, I’ve been writing about health IT and how its advocates believe it could lead to cheaper and better health care for citizens. Now, I’m writing as one of those citizens.
When my health insurer changed in September, I had to sign up on the new provider’s Web site. A question in the form stopped me cold: Was I willing to “store lab and claim data” in my electronic health record?”
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Ellen Perlman, Governing, November 2009
Federal funding may be encouraging a move toward EHR, but there’s more to it than just installing systems. How can healthcare data pooling lead to a better system? More at http://www.healthcaretownhall.com/?p=1499