David Rosenthal: belief

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…You know who else doesn’t love it? In 2017, Obama himself told Vox that he felt that the HITECH legislation did not live up to what he wanted. Here’s his quote: “The fact that there are still just mountains of paperwork, and the doctors still have to input stuff, and the nurses are spending all their time on this administrative work, we put a big slug of money into trying to encourage everyone to digitize, to catch up with the rest of the world, and that’s been harder than we expected.” The quote, I actually don’t think it was at all about catching up with the rest of the world on digitization. I think we were a leader there. But if the hope was that we could somehow downgrade our costs to be in line with the rest of the world, that would’ve been great, and that did not happen. One of the CIOs I talked to had a great quote on this. He said that, “Meaningful use in the HITECH Act wildly succeeded at digitization of the industry. It did absolutely nothing on the digital transformation of the industry. We digitized, but we didn’t transform in the way that I think people were optimistically hoping for. ” That’s interesting. The good news is that it can still come now that all the records are digital.…

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