From: howdHol@yaooho.com   
      
   Boron Elgar  wrote   
      
   > The system just had   
   > to figure out how to properly monetize it all.   
      
   It seems possible that's a big driver.   
      
   I was really bothered to find out that probably the biggest reason   
   behind problems with shifting the medical system to electronic record   
   keeping and data sharing was the insurance side of it. Having doctors   
   record their diagnoses, collect test results, issue prescriptions, and   
   all of that wasn't a huge challenge. For the hardcore anti-tech   
   oldtimers, that stuff can generally be handled by handing notes and   
   recordings off to third parties.   
      
   It wasn't even the privacy issues -- it was the fact that the   
   documentation had to conform to billing specs in order to justify   
   decisions that needed insurance reimbursement.   
      
   Digitizing the patient-provider and provider-provider sides were   
   challenging but manageable, but the patient-insurer and especially the   
   provider-insurer parts were (and still are) a nightmare.   
      
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