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Article: Why stop at HIPAA? Getting back on the healthcare information highway.(Eye On Washington)(Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions)
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- Healthcare Financial Management
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Both President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry, are looking at new breakthroughs in healthcare information technology (IT) as the next best thing for the industry--and more important politically, as a key to making the delivery of health care more efficient and cost-effective.
Not since the halcyon days of the abortive Clinton health plan in 1993-94 has healthcare IT occupied such space in the public policy arena.
Back then, during the summer of Hillary Clinton's "task forces," building the nation's "health information highway" was all the rage. A question that came up repeatedly during my testimony before one or another of the ...