Lawmakers: Medicare’s cost crisis starving health IT
The prognosis is simple for a health care system that is hemorrhaging money: Submit to rehabilitation in the form of widespread adoption of information technology or stand by as the condition worsens. That was the overall message delivered June 21 at the Capitol Hill Health Information Technology Showcase in Washington. “We are headed for the cliff,â€Â? said Sen. Kent Conrad, (D-N.D.). He cited …