“We all know that technology is key to reducing health care costs, eliminating dangerous errors, and eventually providing coverage for all. I like learning from others, so while we consider ourselves innovative, there is no point in repeating mistakes made by others. Here’s a fact motivating the Dutch — one of the leading nations in using modern technology (SOA, XML. HL7v3, Schematrons, Virtualization, Cloud computing) for solving their heath care problems:
“Currently some 90.000 people (out of a population of 16 million) are hospitalized yearly due to wrong medication.”
Fourth Grade Math shows that we, in the US, may be hospitalizing (300/16 x 90,000) over 1.6 Million individuals due to wrong medication.”
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Mamoon Yunus, GovIT Journal, 30 December 2009
