May 20
2013
The Problem with Healthcare IT: The Closer We Get to the Goal, the Farther Away the Goal Seems to Get
Farzad Mostashari recently said that 5 percent of the problem in healthcare now is people while the remaining 95 percent of the problem is systems and IT.
According the national health IT coordinator, as reported by Government Health IT, “It’s systems that let ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
However, the tools that allow us to do extraordinary things contribute to nearly all of the problems physicians and their practices face in healthcare. IT is to blame for healthcare’s problems; not lack of payment reform, overarching government intrusion, lack of research, the fact that doctors are only able to spend about eight minutes with each patient per visit, etc.