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May 7, 2012 10:00 am GMT
This is the second part in a two-part series on strategic investors in healthcare.Healthcare IT departments have focused much of their attention on the $19 billion portion of the stimulus bill that is providing billions of subsidies for the adoption of electronic health records. While this is logical given the available money, it is paying for health IT systems optimized for the "do more, bill more" model of reimbursement that is rapidly being replaced by a value and outcomes based - a 180 shift in focus.Its hard to argue with modernizing the record-keeping in healthcare that isnt far beyond how medicine was recorded in the time of Hippocrates. Thousands of lives are saved as a result of this modernization (e.g., avoiding frequent, deadly prescription errors). On the other hand, most companies benefiting from the stimulus have two massive gaps that will need to be addressed for health systems to thrive in the new environment they are facing.
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Strategic Healthcare Investors Investment Thesis
This is the second part in a two-part series on strategic investors in healthcare.Healthcare IT departments have focused much of their attention on the $19 billion portion of the stimulus bill that is providing billions of subsidies for the adoption of electronic health records. While this is logical given the available money, it is paying for health IT systems optimized for the "do more, bill more" model of reimbursement that is rapidly being replaced by a value and outcomes based - a 180 shift in focus.Its hard to argue with modernizing the record-keeping in healthcare that isnt far beyond how medicine was recorded in the time of Hippocrates. Thousands of lives are saved as a result of this modernization (e.g., avoiding frequent, deadly prescription errors). On the other hand, most companies benefiting from the stimulus have two massive gaps that will need to be addressed for health systems to thrive in the new environment they are facing.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/R0a6W3AkD50/
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