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Health Care Providers Restless for Mandate
www.govhealthit.com An Italian electronic heath care pilot funded by the European Union includes a “smart medicine cabinet” that electronically screens medications for adverse drug interactions as well as automates refill ordering, payment authorization and delivery. Making it work requires a complex set of identity management and privacy agreements, prerequisites of a future health care Internet where health information can be easily shared and data sifted to hone the performance and results of health care procedures.
In the U.S. today, that vision is obscure at best, according to health care executives at a forum this week on health care innovation and technology sponsored by the World Congress organization.
“The industry as we know it today is broken,” said Mohan Nair, chairman of Regence Life and Health, a non-profit payer organization, in his welcome to attendees.
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