Wednesday, 7 December 2005
Can Increasing Technology Cut Down On Health Care Costs?
Pull the health care system out of the technological dark ages and everyone
benefits argues Senator Debbie Stabenow 
-Mich.) in a recent edition of weekly
newspaper, The Hill.
According to Stabenow, healthcare providers are still communicating via handwritten messages and using typewriters to bill patients – indicative of a lack of technology that’s known to increase error and at the same time decrease the quality of healthcare.
The solution? Invest in electronic health records (ehealth records) that will reduce the chance of error and save almost 30% in healthcare spending each year.
Stabenow, along with Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), have introduced the bipartisan Health Information Technology Act to the Senate in the hope of lowering costs and improving quality through nationwide technological improvements to the health care system.
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