Project to improve health care quality, safety and bring in millions of federal dollars

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http://wistechnology.com/articles/6212/


Obama administration is planning and designing a statewide infrastructure and services for Health Information Exchange. The ultimate goal of the health information technology provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is for every individual in the U.S. to have an electronic medical record by 2014. “With electronic health records, physicians and patients have access to more reliable information to make important decisions about what treatment is best and safest while protecting a patient’s privacy,” said Secretary Karen Timberlake.
This is a gigantic project spending $36 billion. The planning, design, and implementation of the statewide HIE architecture and infrastructure is assigned to Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Not to said the benefits are huge, so are the risks. I wonder whether the Obama administration will outsource the project management to a third party. Who will monitor and evaluate the project? What development method should be applied? These are vital question for the project.
I hope my country can invest in projects like HIE rather than spend scarce resource to develop space technologies which America have done in 1960's. Its political significance big than scientific significance. What we need are investment in education, heath care, and social welfare.