RFID Healthcare Information Technology Plan

RFID Healthcare Information Technology Plan: Improving Care and Saving Lives Through Health IT

President Bush has an agenda for driving information technology investment in healthcare, through technologies such as wireless, RFID, etc. ...

... "Updating America's Health Care System: Information technology is changing American industry. At the end of the 1990s, most American industries were spending approximately $8,000 per worker for IT, but the health care industry was investing only approximately $1,000 per worker. The United States has always been innovative with medical care, but continues to face major hurdles in our health information systems as we move into the 21st century. Despite spending over $1.6 trillion on health care as a Nation, there are still serious concerns about high costs, avoidable medical errors, administrative inefficiencies, and poor coordination - all of which are closely connected to the failure to incorporate health information technology into our health care system. " ...