American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - Health Information Technology

As I was reading the ARRA Health Information Technology section a couple of things came to mind.

1) Legal-ease is all about run-on sentences. Use more periods! I can then take a breath more often.

2) Really, this is going to fail if decisions are not made quickly and soon about the standards for securely exchanging content from one entity to another.

I am not the only one who this thinking of this idea of uniform standards in data exchanges, John Halamka talks about this in this recent blog post.

I would like to hope that the EMR software companies realize to not make the barrier to set up the data exchanges between competing systems so costly that even with the ARRA incentives it will not be worth it for hospitals/clinics to pursue this needed information technology modernization and health information exchange.

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