This blog has often remarked that much of the healthcare system is either too distracted, poorly planned or too old-school to evaluate and implement digital solutions for practice and hospital management software. The US government is trying to overcome this with incentives. Starting in 2011, physicians who show that they are “meaningfully” using health IT would [...]
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The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare recently released a publication: Review and evaluation of Australian information about primary health care. In it they have highlighted that accurate, reliable and timely information must be available to assess the quality, effectiveness and outcomes of services provided in general practice. These are currently not the norm. Their findings [...]
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