American tax payers have spent billions funding our current healthcare computer systems.
“Cash for Clunkers,” he calls it.
“[The legislation] gave $30 billion,” says technology entrepreneur Jonathan Bush, “to buy the very pre-internet systems that all of the doctors and hospitals had already looked at and rejected.”
And, he’s right. We’re using clunkers. Paid for by the U.S.A.
The reason for this is simple. These government subsidized and heavily regulated software systems were never designed for the physician end-user. They were built to satisfy thousands and thousands of pages of federal regulations. And, they’ve essentially achieved two things: (1) to create privilege for some, and (2) to politicize everything for the rest of us.
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