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calendar   Tuesday - October 15, 2013

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Ok, I’ve got some time finally to spend on this blog. At least, I think I do.

We got skunked again at Monday Money League bowling. We bowled the boss’s team, the guy who owns the alley. Gee, what a non-surprise, he’s a really great bowler! Anyway, I tried using the Butterscotch Bomb, a new ball I picked up over the summer and have had difficulty with. I couldn’t make it work. I let a few other guys throw it for fun, and they couldn’t get much out of it either. So it’s in the shop for a tweaking, whatever that means. A balance hole probably. They love me there, so the staff is always willing to try and help. So let’s see what happens.

OK, stale news, slightly. The vets stormed the memorials and kicked down the banners. Awesome. Then delivered them to the White House. Major uber awesome. Palin and Cruz showed up and had patriotic things to say. Love it.

But I turn on the news and I don’t hear a word about the GOP trying to block Obamacare. Did that die? It was THE story a couple days ago, and for more than a week before that. Now, not a word. And now I’m hearing they’re also going to give in on raising the debt ceiling? And give up the sequester too? I guess they couldn’t wait to get back to business as usual, lining their pockets while the people suffer? I give up.

OK, time to get some food in me, then take a look at the news. So far, it looks like today’s story is “30 Billion Dollars Wasted on ‘glitch’”, a sad tale about Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and the tons of money wasted on government subsidies for them, and how they don’t really work. No kidding. The EMR push has been going on for nearly a decade now. My wife works for a doctor; they’re on their 4th system. The first 3 were completely inept and could not be adapted to track and code the tasks that office does. The current system seems to be doing it, but whether it can get the data back and forth to the government/hospital/HIPPA network remains to be seen. Not her world, so I never hear about that part. EMR is a great idea, but a nearly impossible out-of-the-box implementation, because no two doctors run things the same way. Which means every copy of any software needs to be customized. “Customized” is an IT word that means “Throw buckets and buckets of money at the programmers, wait a few months, and maybe they can make some changes that will work.”

The rollout of ObamaCare has been plagued by problems these past two weeks, as thousands complained they couldn’t sign up for coverage due to a deeply defective website. 

But this process could have been easier if a nine-year, government-backed effort to set up a system of electronic medical records had gotten off the ground. Instead of setting up their medical ID for the first time, would-be customers would have their records already on file.

Unfortunately for patients—and taxpayers—the long-running project has produced tangibly few results despite costing the government, so far, at least $30 billion.

Under a George W. Bush-era executive order, all Americans should have access to their medical records by the end of 2014, part of a concept referred to as e-health. President Obama then made electronic medical records (EMRs) central to the success of the Affordable Care Act

Health care IT providers were tasked with creating a system connecting patients, health care professionals, hospitals, laboratories and medical facilities. But despite being paid vast incentives by the government’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), they’ve dragged their feet.

Doctors have so far received $14 billion in sweeteners, and hospitals have been handed more than $16 billion. Officials indicate that incentives could eventually reach $45 billion, though there is no universally integrated system anywhere in sight.

Taxpayers lose here, but so do patients.


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