For today’s podcast, I did some research at http://www.recovery.gov , looking for recipient reports for “Health IT”. The results were pretty interesting. In the show, I talk about some of the information that I found, some trends that I saw, and talk about a few of the more humorous projects (like one for the study of the efficacy of lifestyle changes for obese men with erectile dysfunction).
One of the common themes that I found was that a significant amount of the ARRA money that was supposed to be used to change the face of healthcare IT is really only being used to augment systems that are already in place. This means that a lot of the money is being used for tactical purposes in organizations, and not fulfilling strategic needs.
This podcast is being used for my feature at ADVANCE for Health Information Executives for the month of April as well.
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