“One of the more interesting recent health policy events took place at the Brookings Institution’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform. The December 2nd event did not focus on the reform bills in the House and Senate or the horse trading and sausage making that has gone into them. The panels and discussion, titled “Using Data to Support Better Health Care: One Infrastructure with Many Uses,” chaired by Mark McClellan, focused explicitly on health information technology (IT).
Rather than another dreary recitation of how poorly the United States measures up to other developed countries or to systems such as Kaiser, Geisinger, or Mayo, the first round of panelists–L. Allen Dobson of Carolinas Care, Richard Platt of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim, and Alan Garber of the VA and Stanford University–focused their comments on specific areas where health IT is being used and holds great promise.”
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Sarah Dine, Health Affairs, 16 December 2009
