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"Partners? $1.2b patient data system seen as key to future"

My favorite quote: "The costs of the technology upgrades will eventually get passed on to consumers through health insurance premiums, and to taxpayers, who subsidize Medicare and Medicaid, said Dr. Paul Hattis, a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine....We will ultimately all pay for it,? Hattis said. ?Will we get dividends back in terms of better care and greater efficiencies? We don?t know yet.?

But what the heck... why not gamble?

Great article Jon! Thanks. It helps explain why health care spending is projected to be 115% of GDP by 2020. :-)

That's just ducky.
But I haven't yet figured out how to pass on the cost of technology upgrades to the "consumers".
I do feel increasingly "consumed", however.
Private docs are more and more like the Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass. You have to believe three impossible things each morning before breakfast, and run twice as fast to stay in the same place.

Could not have versed it better!

Since it looks like Medicare reimbursements have been determined for the next several years from the SGR fix, and Medicaid reimbursement will be equal or less than Medicare, the costs will not get passed on to consumers for some time. We can go look in the mirror to see who the costs are being passed on to.

Rando - exactly. Reason why we do not accept any insurance, especially Medicare or Medicaid. Their reimbursements would be laughable if not so egregious. We charge what we need to stay in business... because our practice is a business and not some other worldly thing. This means when others inflict costs on me, that cost must be passed on to consumers. Otherwise I do not own my business and should seek out where John Galt is hiding.