| US Senate bill would codify national health IT standards |
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) today introduced a bill that mirrors much of the recent activity by the Health and Human Services Department’s National Health IT Coordination Office. The two potential 2008 presidential candidates are cosponsoring the Health Technology to Enhance Quality Act that would help create an interoperable health IT system through the adoption of standards to reduce costs, enhance efficiency and improve overall patient care. “Grounding our health care in IT can cut out waste and redundancies that drive up costs, hamper efficiencies and cause medical errors,” said Frist. Adopting health IT could cut up to 25 percent of health costs. Some estimate the cost savings at up to $200 billion, Clinton said. Go to www.gcn.com for the full article. |
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