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Qui bono?
Let's see:
* Nothing in it for the patient
* Nothing in it for the practitioner
* Nothing in it for the hospital
* Nothing in it for the ultimate payee (Government or employer mostly)
* Huge cost savings for insurers

Contrary to the approach taken in the rest of the world to "socialized medicine," the proposals on the table in the USA leave the current mare's nest of middlemen intact and add a layer of bureaucracy on top. That's heavy-duty intensive on record-keeping, so it's not surprising that lowering the cost of that extra record-keeping is showing up as a key factor in all of the "health-care reform" plans.

The other side of this is the hope that enough of the system can be automated that there isn't any identifiable individual to point to when "the system" overrules an MD on patient treatment. It's just One of Those Things.
Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 08/28/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Qui bono?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 08/28/07
What is needed is competition  John L. Ries | 08/28/07
Sure  JimSatterfieldW | 08/29/07
There are a few benefits  Ken_z | 08/28/07
An electronic record system is already the law...  Anton Philidor | 08/28/07
A real magic bullet?  Anton Philidor | 08/28/07
Computerized systems are the least of the problems  rc76058@... | 08/29/07
In a way I agree with you  Ken_z | 08/29/07
Digital records are a really really bad idea  mark.carder@... | 08/29/07

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