When the new president of the United States won the election, he promised the people that he will be spending a lot of money to modernized the current health care of the country. He in fact made it clear that he will modernized the already modern system of the American hospitals.It seems likely that President Barack Obama is being true to his words by putting the health information technology (IT) as a first-order priority to the fiscal stimulus package.
Last Dec. 6,we heard the President-elect said through his speech:
...we must also ensure that our hospitals are connected to each other through the Internet. That is why the economic recovery plan I’m proposing will help modernize our health care system – and that won’t just save jobs, it will save lives.
With that, we can now rest for a while until the new president transform his words into action when he officially take the seat as president of the country next year.
The health IT modernization will most likely be an inter-hospital connection, where all hospital of the country, and perhaps in other parts of the world, are connected to each other for better medical results and faster medical alerts.
The health IT investment is also predicted to concentrate on buying electronic health record systems (EHRs or EMRs). These are expensive commercial software suites for entering, storing and managing patient health data that is under or within a practice of a health organization.
