tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post8267877483410199919..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: WSJ, Koppel and Soumerai: A Major Glitch for Digitized Health-Care Records - Cost Savings IllusoryRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-26955596520500779632012-09-20T23:08:18.842-04:002012-09-20T23:08:18.842-04:00Anonymous September 20, 2012 6:01:00 PM EDT wrote:...Anonymous September 20, 2012 6:01:00 PM EDT wrote:<br /><br /><i>But the argument that Health IT is a failure because it failed to save money is dangerous and flawed. if we actually did turn on Health IT to save money, that would be an entirely different story</i><br /><br />I don't think Koppel or Soumerai made that argument, and I certainly don't.<br /><br />The overriding issue for allInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-46079316514050667352012-09-20T18:01:41.202-04:002012-09-20T18:01:41.202-04:00the central posit of the article is that health IT...the central posit of the article is that health IT promised to save 78-100 billions of dollars, but savings have failed to materialize in 50 years worth of data.<br /><br />this is a fair argument and critique. and probably true but an incomplete one. <br /><br />as with all physicians, cpoe has saved my butt (and more importantly my patient's butt) when i have overlooked med interactions forAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-40791763073077296592012-09-18T23:31:48.032-04:002012-09-18T23:31:48.032-04:00No accountability=poor usability + lack of safety ...No accountability=poor usability + lack of safety + limited innovation + excessive costsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com