Forum: Health reform, technology must align to improve quality of care | Markle | Advancing America's Future
Forum: Health reform, technology must align to improve quality of care | Markle | Advancing America's Future

Forum: Health reform, technology must align to improve quality of care

Publication Date: July 15, 2009 | Back to Latest News

Reductions in cost and improvements in care are achievable if national efforts to boost health information technology adoption are coordinated with national health reform plans, said a trio of non-profit organizations.

By targeting specific goals, like preventing 1 million heart attacks and strokes or cutting medication errors by half, and adopting health IT to achieve these, the quality of health in America will be impacted for generations, according to the Markle Foundation, the Center for American Progress and the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings.

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