Home Forums Discussions General Discussion HITECH, Meaningful Use and Incentives

Thank you for the information, Jon. It does sound encouraging. I imagine many of us have mixed feelings about whether the government should mandate (or incentivize) how medicine is practiced. Nevertheless, if best practices and preventive measures are appropriately encouraged in the right way, it is conceivable that quality of healthcare could improve (if we all learn from each other, as with this user board, for example) as costs are incrementally contained (appropriate primary care practices reducing to some extent the more expensive hospital procedures and costs). Of course, it remains to be seen whether governmental bureaucracy will ruin such idealistic hopes ...