Happy 2008! It's been great so far- lots of cold and flu, and folks throwing up all over the place... lots of easy 99213s... what more can us docs want? It's going to be a great year indeed!
Anyhow, on Friday I found out that one of my patients, a lawyer that served in the past on one of the Congressional oversight committees came through and took my 65 page dissertation on what's wrong with HIT in the USA (
http://www.box.net/shared/static/ceebmf946k.ppt) and made hard copies and distributed it to all involved legistators of both parties with a note that "this could increase the cost of Medicare!". This was one reason why they defunded P4P and held the EHR tie-in provision at the last moment. Gosh, I wish I could have been a fly on the wall!
Anyhow, she warned me that they could easily refund it by the time they take up the measure again in June.
It's great working in the Washington, D.C. area!
