Mostishari rebuts RAND EHR study in 178 words in NY Times:
"reforms require electronic health records to carry out." http://goo.gl/FpYMR
New York Times Letter to the Editor on January 23, 2013 from National Health IT Coordinator Farzad Mostishare:
“In 2nd Look, Few Savings From Digital Care Records” (Business Day, Jan. 11) reports on the recent RAND study’s findings that the use of electronic health records has not yet reached its potential."
See http://goo.gl/FpYMR
Original times story: www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/business/electronic-records-systems-have-not-reduced-health-costs-report-says.html"
Report based on RAND Study "What It Will Take to Achieve the As-Yet-Unfulfilled Promises of Health Information Technology" by Arthur L. Kellermann and Spencer S. Jones, as published in Health Affairs January 2013 issue: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/32/1/63.abstract?etoc