Obama Health IT Pledge Brings Up Price & Privacy Questions

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News President Barak Obama’s Inaugural pledge to make health information technology a priority galvanized privacy advocates, and may have surprised the general public, which supports health care reform but not higher spending for health IT. Legislation to advance the President’s health IT priorities is included in the economic recovery package to be considered by the full U.S. House of Representatives the week of January 26, 2009. The health IT legislation, called the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act or HITECH Act, is a $20 billion part . . .