What are the roles of managed care, health plans, and insurance companies in promoting health IT?
They have a necessary role in supporting the financing of health information technology adoption … they’re at risk and they have the bottom-line benefit of efficiency and quality improvements…. Right now we have too many different theories of what data should be collected for measuring quality and performance and because of that we have too many unrelated or uncorrelated data collection efforts. The plans can play, and are playing, a significant role in streamlining that down to one set of quality measures and therefore one set of data that’s collected. When did you stop working as a clinician, and do you miss it? I saw my last patient in 2002, when my travel schedule came to the point where I was unable to be systematically in one place at any given point in time…. I worked in immune deficiency and I think it’s a very important area of treatment, a very important area of discovery, an area, by the way, where the access to information and the patient control over it are probably
