[LINK] Unfulfilled Promises Of Health Information Technology

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Jim Birch wrote:
> The US health care system is a wreck.  It is loaded with people and
> companies whose idea of medical progress is to increase their incomes with
> minimal regard to actual health outcomes. The benefits and costs of Health
> IT is swamped by other factors in the US.
> 
> Costa Rica gets an equivalent or better health result with a per capita
> spent of about 10% of the US figure.
> 
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376989/
> 
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A better use of Information Technology in relation to health (rather than
acute medical care) would
be:

*a website of recipes made from fresh ingredients and cooking lessons (TAFE
used to broadcast their basic course on community TV),
*online ordering and delivery of basic nutrition ingredients at regulated
prices, across the
country,
*providing everyone with an pedal generator to power
*universal access to basic nutrition ingredients within walking distance.

Perhaps the education system needs to incorporate a competency in nutrition 
as well as reading, writing and financial management.

Marghanita
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