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The cost of health care is escalating, due in part of both technology and specialized training for physicians. Health care is a huge national concern. There’s a lot of talk about health care reform, and the industry does need it, especially since so many people that are only after the most basic of care have to get emergency cash loans to cover something as simple as a simple antibiotics script, and a full third of the nation is without health insurance. The lead researcher for the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, Elliot Fisher, a practitioner for over 20 years, has pointed out that areas that spend more on health care interestingly spend more on unnecessary procedures, and have higher mortality rates. So why do we need payday cash advances for health care that is worse when more expensive?
I think the role of IT is a very important one. The more information available to both patients and doctors, the better the experience. I know that the future of health care directly will depend on information. I also know that IT and IS will further enhance that future of health care.
IT made our world so small that we people of different race and talents merge to find solutions in our everyday life problems.In the case of health care it revolutionize how we can find possible answers for our health conditions or our simple injuries perhaps. With an instant with the help of IT, it can provide us valuable informations like RI Chiropractic therapies, alternative medicines, and other forms of medical solutions. IT has a big role now in our society especially in the area of health care.”
Dr.Safavi – I would like to inform you that the Federation of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is holding its annual health services conference called FICCI HEAL on September 5th and 6th, 2010. I am the convener of the panel session Transformation of Healthcare through IT”" Our audience would be the healthcare service providers(government and private hospitals, prehospital services, bureaucrats from the central and state governments etc. FICCI involves itself in a number of policy shaping activities. I would like to know if your team would like to participate in the sessions mentioned above? Vijay Simha, FICCI Health Services Committee and COO, BPL Healthcare Divn.”
I think IT is good for information but we should desist from trying to mechanize health care processes taking out the human element from the process. Human body is too complex to and complete automation can be dangerous.