HIMSS calls for $25B health IT investment from Obama administration

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society released a detailed report outlining specific priorities and recommendations for the Obama administration and 111th Congress to harness IT’s power to reform healthcare and stimulate the U.S. economy.

Make Your Voice Heard.......Host an Health IT Discussion for the Obama-Biden Administration

WASHINGTON, DC (December 8, 2008) Per an opportunity created by the Obama-Biden Transition Team, convening between December 15 - 31, Americans hosting these community discussions will help the transition team develop appropriate healthcare policy recommendations. Community discussions on healthcare IT will ensure the Transition Team has input and ideas from your colleagues and industry experts in your region of the country. The Transition Team will provide you with moderator kits to give you everything you need to get the discussion going.

Leveraging a Medical Grade Network to enable a better care

President-elect Barack Obama lays out key parts of Economic Recovery Plan....regarding healthcare...."In addition to connecting our libraries and schools to the internet, to each other through the internet we must also ensure that our hospitals are connected. That is why the economic recovery plan I’m proposing will help modernize our health care system – and that won’t just save jobs, it will save lives. We will make sure that every doctor’s office and hospital in this country is using cutting edge technology and electronic medical records so that we can cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes, and help save billions of dollars each year.”