The Future of Health IT Is Bright, Says House leader
WASHINGTON – U.S. House of Representatives Michael Burgess, MD (R-Tex.), vice-chair of the subcommittee on health within the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is an obstetrician and has not always been in favor of health IT.
As he tells attendees of a keynote at the June 18 Government Health IT Conference in Washington, DC, the cost of IT infrastructure in the 1980s in the large multi-specialty practice in which he practiced was prohibitive.
“It has not always been a happy alliance between the physician and the information architecture,” he said. “The transition of health IT for physicians has been clunky.”
With the advent of the year 2000, Burgess was encouraged to purchase yet another computer system, which turned out to be unnecessary when Y2K did not wreck havoc, Yet another disappointing and costly experience in health IT, he admits.
Full article by Diana Manos, Senior Editor, Government Health IT
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