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 "We could call this strategy CARE, for coordination, accountability, electronic medical records, and evidence.
While the tasks are clear, implementing CARE around the country won't be simple. In order to do it, we have to rethink the way we pay doctors and hospitals. The first step is for Medicare to address the way it overpays for certain procedures, like radiology and bypass surgery, and underpays for less-intensive care. The current system encourages hospitals to invest in expensive doctors and beds and technology that aren't necessarily what patients need."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "The necessary steps are pretty obvious: Implement electronic medical records. Reduce the excess capacity in hospitals, the unnecessary beds and extra specialists, that drives a great deal of unnecessary care. Make sure that everybody has access to primary care physicians, and that they aren't overwhelmed trying to handle too many patients. Give them the time to practice preventive medicine. (VHA primary care doctors are responsible for about fifteen hundred patients, at least five hundred fewer than the average internist or family physician." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "There are many lessons to be learned from the VHA, the most obvious being that hospitals need electronic medical records, but it would be a mistake to think that VistA alone is responsible for the success of the VHA, or that implementing IT in the rest of the health care system will somehow magically fix its many problems. VistA was a tool, which Kenneth Kizer and the VHA used to measure performance, coordinate care, and reduce error." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "An increasingly vocal segment of the American public worries that electronic medical records are not secure enough to prevent employers from getting information that employees would rather keep private, like being diagnosed with a psychiatric condition. But if we can trust banks to protect our money, it seems reasonable to think we can devise a system to protect our medical information. There are going to be plenty of doctors who will object to such a plan on other grounds." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "Medical informatics is the term that is applied not only to the use of electronic medical records, but also to so-called decision support programs that can be integrated with electronic medical records. Many doctors recognize the difficulty they have keeping up with the literature, and would welcome authoritative, evidence-based information just at the moment they're making decisions. The computer makes this increasingly possible.
Suppose the doctor has just admitted an elderly patient from a nursing home into the hospital and has diagnosed pneumonia."- Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.) |
 "Put another way, healthcare will be delivered in an automated context, making full use of electronic medical records, personalised treatment protocols, and ultimately, personal medicines.14
It all sounded fantastic but, of course, couldn't get round the fact that most people appreciate a doctor and a bit of care and attention, especially when ill. As author Madeline Bunting observed, 'The central tenet of consumerism is choice; when you're ill, you don't have the strength to make complicated choices."- Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) |
| "With the current mandate for electronic medical records, you are going to have a hard time getting a film mammogram into an electronic medical record.
"This study makes it more reasonable to go for the investment now, because you get an immediate clinical payoff," he adds.
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 "Such horror stories have helped to discourage hospitals from investing in IT, but the main reason so few have installed electronic medical records is that there's no business case to be made for purchasing a computer system that won't contribute to the hospital's bottom line. Electronic records can improve care, but hospitals currently don't get rewarded for providing better care, so they have a hard time justifying the investment. With an incentive from Medicare to organize care, and their share of the savings, they would have a reason to do it."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Fewer than 1 o percent of hospitals in the country have instituted electronic medical records, and the health care industry as a whole spends less than 3 percent of its revenue on information technology, far less than the 10 percent that other information-intensive industries, like the airlines, spend. Some hospitals have put in systems only to pull the plug when doctors rebelled. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles, installed a thirty-four-million-dollar computerized physician ordering system to streamline drug prescriptions and reduce error rates." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Medicare would use its share of the savings to help doctors invest in electronic medical records and other infrastructure needed for managing chronic illness that is not now paid for under traditional Medicare. At the end of a ten-year phase-in, providers that were not participating in an organized, accountable P4P plan would no longer receive reimbursement for caring for chronically ill Medicare patients. They would be paid for emergency services only." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "We could call this strategy CARE, for coordination, accountability, electronic medical records, and evidence. While the tasks are clear, implementing CARE around the country won't be simple. In order to do it, we have to rethink the way we pay doctors and hospitals. The first step is for Medicare to address the way it overpays for certain procedures, like radiology and bypass surgery, and underpays for less-intensive care. The current system encourages hospitals to invest in expensive doctors and beds and technology that aren't necessarily what patients need." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "Doctors will also receive payments for establishing electronic medical records, systems for tracking the care of chronically ill patients, and developing patient-education programs. Several California plans are starting similar initiatives. In that state, where much care is capitated, physicians will be able to qualify for a $2 per member per month bonus if they meet six patient satisfaction and medical care standards."- Jerome P. Kassirer, On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health (Get the book.) |
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