“While there is increasingly less doubt that a system-wide revaluing and rebuilding of our primary care infrastructure will both reduce health care costs and improve health outcomes, there is less certainty with regard to the contributions of the high-tech elements of health reform. A recently released study by researchers out of Harvard Medical School scheduled for publication in the American Journal of Medicine suggests that despite Congressional support of more than $19 Billion, claims of increased efficiencies attributable to hospital computerization (EMR) “rest on scant data.” The study was based on a review of over 4,000 hospitals over a 5-year study period.”
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Ray Saputelli’s Blog, 8 December 2009
Article (Himmelstein 2009)
