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Carrots, Sticks and Digital Health Records

Tuesday, 08 March 2011 10:16

Read this week's issue - March 8, 2011

medlaptopsmall The United States is embarking this year on a grand experiment in the government-driven adoption of technology — ambitious, costly and potentially far-reaching in impact. The goal is to improve health care and to reduce its long-term expense by moving the doctors and hospitals from ink and paper into the computer age — through a shift to digital patient records.

Step back from the details and what emerges is a huge challenge in innovation design. What role should government have? What is the right mix of top-down and bottom-up efforts? Driving change through the system will involve shifts in technology, economic incentives and the culture of health care.

Read more in the February 26, 2011 New York Times "Carrots, Sticks and Digital Health Records "

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