Friday, January 9, 2009 - In a speech pushing his economic stimulus plan on Thursday, President-elect Barack Obama called for all U.S. residents to have electronic health records within five years, Health Data Management
reports.
Obama said, "To improve the quality of our health care while lowering its costs, we will make the immediate investments necessary to ensure that within five years, all of America's medical records are computerized." He added, "This will cut waste, eliminate red tape and reduce the need to repeat expensive medical tests. But it won't just save billions of dollars and thousands of jobs, it will save lives by reducing the deadly but preventable medical errors that pervade our health care system."
During his presidential campaign, Obama said he would allocate $50 billion over five years to support the adoption of standards-based health IT systems and a national health information network (Goedert, Health Data Management, 1/8).
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