Stimulas Bill Calls For Computerizing Health Care. ( NPR.org ; January 28, 2009 <morning edition>)
Summary: The next step in health care is to make information more technologically advanced. With more computers dedicated to the health care industry, creating more jobs, and making the records easier for doctors to access. This will have more long-term benefits on health care. The investment of technology will help the treatment move up to the next step.
Topic:Should the government arrange for hospitals to network to help standardize the cost of health care?
Category: Journalistic
Title: Stimulus Bill Calls For Computerizing Health Care
Author: Joanne Silberner January 28, 2009
Location: NPR.com
Accessed: January 30, 2009
Support: Dr. John Halamka is the chief information officer at Harvard Medical School; Obama administration; Dr. Paul Tang, the chief medical information officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation;Congressional Budget Office; James Gelfand of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. All of these ‘experts’ are coming together to try to find a solution for the health care crisis that the country is going through. A plan has not been put into action but there is thoughts of health care being something that could help boost employment, as well as the esteem of the average American.
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Usefulness: This broadcast shows the opinions of health care professionals and politics, while providing both sides of the story. It also shows many of the pros of pushing the health care system into the technology age. Once the computer is in easy access for hospitals networks can be built, sharing records from doctor to doctor. There is a list of benefits of going towards technology in health care, and many politics agree that it would lower costs and help the research end of the health care system.
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