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Technology spending averages just $3,000 per worker in health care, compared with $7,000 per worker for all U.S. industries and up to $15,000 per worker in banking, Clinton said. >
I especially like this one. Can we say double or triple our IT budgets? I don't think so, not without a tremendous increase in worker productivity. Remember, right now, costs are escalating at 12 14%/year in the US. And this is during a time of spending restraint!
The increase in worker productivity that such things will require will completely transform the practice of medicine as we know it. This is what I have been trying to claim recently.
Meanwhile, the physicians applaud and ask for a cap on mal-practice payouts!
However, the cynical side of me says that any political action on this front in the US will just be another corporate feeding frenzy at the federal trough.
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