Posted on 01/12/2004 10:59:09 AM PST by areafiftyone
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to focus this year on improving health care, beginning with a proposal designed to modernize information-sharing with a nationwide electronic system.
"In the 1990s, many industries transformed through the use of information technology. Health care has not done so, but can and should," Clinton said, in remarks prepared for a speech Monday at a Manhattan hospital. "Information, in the hands of the right people, at the right time, drives quality and value."
Clinton's legislation would create an information technology infrastructure to enable American health providers to share electronic health records.
Some doctors, hospitals and pharmacies already use electronic health records in areas like paperless prescriptions. But electronic medical records aren't widely used, and Clinton says a government-created system with special standards could change that.
Her new legislation also would:
-- Increase research on the quality and effectiveness of care.
-- Provide the public with a standardized reporting system that allows patients to compare performance on hospitals and other providers.
-- Ensure that the electronic information-sharing would be in real time through devices like hand-held computers, giving providers the latest research, guidelines and records.
-- Fund studies to identify payment structures that reward performance, instead of penalize quality, which she contends sometimes happens through Medicare.
Clinton, D-N.Y., fought unsuccessfully a decade ago to expand affordable health care. The initiative died after industry interests and many members of Congress resisted to what they called a confusing bureaucracy.
Clinton has said she learned lessons from the failure.
Heck, we can also run paternity checks on each other's children, if she's so curious.
I suppose just like her racist comments. "Paul Fray a FJB" to "Ghandi is a gas station attendant"..
Clinton, D-N.Y., fought unsuccessfully a decade ago to expand affordable health care. The initiative died after industry interests and many members of Congress resisted to what they called a confusing bureaucracy.
Holy cow! Nothing like a little editorializing bleeding into the "hard news"!
Here’s my rewrite:
Clinton, D-N.Y., fought unsuccessfully a decade ago to socialize health care and thereby give government control to an additional one-sixth of our economy. The initiative died after people got a look at her insane plan, which included such bizarro ideas as racial slots for doctors in each field of medicine as well as annual quotas on certain medical procedures.
To accompany the FBI files no doubt
I hate to admit this, but we owe her much, and it's swell she doesn't get it and keeps trying.
Anyone who buys what this biatch is selling deserves an asprin for anesthesia during abdominal surgery.
And who decides who is the right person to see my private medical information and at what time? HIPAA is bad enough. She never gives up.
I suspect it's to ration healthcare based on states, and their political color. A state can be punished for not voting a certain way, and healthcare will be the weapon. Insulin shortages, joint replacement denials, hernia belts instead of surgery, cortisone shots for knee pain, and a 1-800 number for mental health services which connects you to bilingual voicemail and a machine which will notify your local police department in order to disarm you and feed you thorazine until you are right in the head or dead.
FBI files.
I think a person's medical records are private and should not be "shared". I certainly don't want them online. I choose my doctors carefully and I want my history to stay with them. If I'm that sick I ain't going to go to NY anyway and no Doctor there is going to need my records. I don't see any practical utility in this except to spy on people...gun owners...the disabled...and other "untermenschen" and "life unworthy of life". Hiliary is a fascist and I don't want her stinking "help".
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