The healthcare industry computer software circus is a really good example of what goes on with any new administration.
The issue of interstate communication for the healthcare industry will probably fall under three federal authorities besides the President's executive order right. It seems to me the FCC, HHS and Homeland Security is involved. The healthcare records include sensitive information for people like President Obama.
What needs to happen here is for the President to ask these agencies to look into escalating costs due to repeated and unnecessary spending on items such as computer software. Many hospitals are non-profit and like to spend their income to reduce profits and fall in guidelines of non-profit. The monies for unnecessary activities and items like construction vs client populations and software are frequent abuses of national healthcare costs. Each administration plays with regulations to benefit their cronies. The way to stop this is for any changes from administration to administration has to engage a period of "Public Comment."
So, this entire mess can become rather burdensome to the cost of health care. The three departments mentioned need to write regulations regarding frequency of changes in software and building expansions, etc. Hospitals under Bush saw closures all the time. The number of patient beds dropped, especially that of mental health services. Today there are far more procedures than surgery and the need for patient beds are somewhat lower, but, not with all hospitals. Major hospitals always have high demands on their services.
But, there needs to be an understanding that the health care industry has to review it's repeated abuses and engage oversight. That means the departments have to write regulations for the industry on repeat spending such as construction and computer software. The country has to have a say in the expense the industry is causing consumers.
What I could not understand in the closure of hospitals, why the majors didn't scoff up the empty facilities. But, that is just me.
There are may ways to cut health care costs and it is best handled through necessary regulation and review of the industries activities.
Consumers and sometimes elected officials don't see the big picture and would never expect such wasteful spending from an industry where their lives are supported through trusted doctors and hospitals. CEOs are different kinds of cats.
The issue of interstate communication for the healthcare industry will probably fall under three federal authorities besides the President's executive order right. It seems to me the FCC, HHS and Homeland Security is involved. The healthcare records include sensitive information for people like President Obama.
What needs to happen here is for the President to ask these agencies to look into escalating costs due to repeated and unnecessary spending on items such as computer software. Many hospitals are non-profit and like to spend their income to reduce profits and fall in guidelines of non-profit. The monies for unnecessary activities and items like construction vs client populations and software are frequent abuses of national healthcare costs. Each administration plays with regulations to benefit their cronies. The way to stop this is for any changes from administration to administration has to engage a period of "Public Comment."
So, this entire mess can become rather burdensome to the cost of health care. The three departments mentioned need to write regulations regarding frequency of changes in software and building expansions, etc. Hospitals under Bush saw closures all the time. The number of patient beds dropped, especially that of mental health services. Today there are far more procedures than surgery and the need for patient beds are somewhat lower, but, not with all hospitals. Major hospitals always have high demands on their services.
But, there needs to be an understanding that the health care industry has to review it's repeated abuses and engage oversight. That means the departments have to write regulations for the industry on repeat spending such as construction and computer software. The country has to have a say in the expense the industry is causing consumers.
What I could not understand in the closure of hospitals, why the majors didn't scoff up the empty facilities. But, that is just me.
There are may ways to cut health care costs and it is best handled through necessary regulation and review of the industries activities.
Consumers and sometimes elected officials don't see the big picture and would never expect such wasteful spending from an industry where their lives are supported through trusted doctors and hospitals. CEOs are different kinds of cats.
