The 10th Step to Control Health Care Costs: Implement modern Health IT.
The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues, has an article on "Taking a Walk on the Supply Side: 10 Steps to Control Health Care Costs"
That article presents 10 approaches that show promise for reducing health care expenditures, the final one being:
10. Implement modern information technology.
All of these savings would be easier to achieve if health care providers used modern information systems. Such systems would lower administrative costs, reduce medical errors, and make it easier to retrieve test results and review medications. Electronic medical records could give physicians timely access to complete medical histories, in many cases eliminating the need to hospitalize patients.
See the full article at: 10 Steps to Control Health Care Costs [1]. Source URL: http://e-healthexpert.org/node/85
