Senate Finance Committee on Healthcare Reform: “We need IT help, lots of it.”
Friday, September 12th, 2008 | Link | Spread The Word!
The Senate Finance committee recommended that the Federal Government take the lead on healthcare reform by implementing solutions that would not only cut costs but improve care. After recent hearings, the committee recommended that Pay for Performance healthcare, increased transparency and Health IT would do wonders to reign in an industry whose inefficiencies have become increasingly elephantine in recent years. It’s no wonder that better IT service top their recommendations given that such an overhaul would necessarily result in greater transparency. Software solutions are increasingly being adopted throughout the healthcare industry to help providers, insurers, and patients get the best return on their spend. While relations between these three groups can get adversarial at times, everyone would benefit from wasteful inefficiencies being eliminated or reduced.