According to HHS' National Coordinator for Health Information Technology David Blumenthal , Healthcare IT Systems have four barriers…
- There is a lack of adequate funding
- Physicians want the healthcare IT systems but worry about which system to purchase
- Not having the infrastructure for health information exchanges and not knowing how to implement the systems
- The American people need to be convinced that the information exchanged will be private
These remarks were made at a late October 2010 briefing in Washington that focused on what the U.S. and other countries are learning from investment in health IT.
Blumenthal explained how health IT could be used in public health and how social networking might be a useful tool in this arena as long as meaningful-use guidelines address public-health issues.
“Once we get information into electronic form; all kinds of uses will be possible,” Blumenthal said. “But we can't get there until the information is digitized.”
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