Obama said that electronic medical records will create more jobs and reduce medical cost.
I thought that would mean it would mean less people needed to file paper work and isn't malpractice lawsuits the biggest cost for the medical community not writing out paper work. So, wouldn't capping the amount of money rewarded in lawsuits cut back on the amount of malpractice insurance needed today save the most money and cut health care cost for everyone?
If you think this will create jobs please tell how
What bad thing did I say about him.....not a dam thing
all I am doing is asking how this is creating new jobs and cutting health care cost
Lattrel
IF YOU'S STOP DISSING HIM, MAYBE HE CAN WORK ON HELPING THE COUNTRY
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That's going to eliminate jobs. A lot of people don't realize that and is why most people in the health care industry oppose it.
Reality has a Liberal Bias
You need people to create the systems. This is big task.
The point of this is to reduce healthcare costs, which are a huge tax on the economy.
So, in effect, this is a tax cut.
silverblue
probaby faster and more efficient service, thus creating more jobs? not sure ehehehe
eelfins
Liberals know the stimulus package won't create jobs. It will make them feel better if their Fuhrer spends more of those evil rich taxpayer's money, though.
martinx07
That will reduce jobs, and increase employment. Where will he get the money to do this? China? Our pockets? from the the Fed? It's just another way to increase the power of the medical industrial complex.
bash
Obama said his administration will work to "computerize" all U.S. medical records within five years. We've known this was coming for a while. Four years ago, President Bush said most U.S. medical records would be electronic by 2014, and Microsoft's senior director of worldwide health, Dr. Bill Crounse, says we have made progress in that direction.
But the Obama-led government will push harder and make even bigger investments in electronic health record initiatives -- and not only because it would simplify and streamline records management and information sharing between doctors' offices, hospitals, insurance companies and the like. The emphasis at this point is on the plethora of jobs such an undertaking will create, especially within the IT field, as well as the cuts in spending that will result.
It will take time to get the transition to electronic records in place, but by 2010 the effort will be well on its way, Kornett added. Some have estimated that electronic medical records will save $ 10 billion a year, "but I think that's low — they absolutely will save so much more," he said. "Right now, there is so much duplication."
Dakeyras L
This will most likely create advanced level jobs.
If everything is stored electronically, moving all that info from paper to a computer in even a single hospital alone would require many many Terabytes of storage. There will have to be more computer systems installed. They will need proper maintenance. They will need the proper networking. They might require the addition of another systems administrator.
A lot of computer related jobs. Nothing that an average Joe can do like filing.
DW2020
Why not both ideas? There's nothing about the one that's exclusive to the other. One thing about online medical records is that it might make it easier for Doc's to do virtual house calls, or for health managers to monitor whole groups of similar patients collectively.
Medical inflation drives up the costs of health insurance, so that employers who buy insurance for their employees have to cut back to compensate, maybe in hiring.
walter_b_marvin
It creates high tech jobs in computers and telecommunications. Imagine that you could talk to your doctor over your computer. He could call up your records, and E-Mail your prescription. It you have a chronic condition, you can have a local monitoring device, which he can access. Lots of jobs for programmers, engineers, telecom technicians, database administrators, etc.
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