National Health IT Week: IT can improve quality, create jobs and reduce costs
Reps. Phil Gingrey, MD, (R-Ga.), Allyson Y. Schwartz (D-Pa.), Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) spoke about how health IT can improve the quality of patient care, create jobs and reduce healthcare costs.
At a National Health IT Week press conference on Capitol Hill, Gingrey said, “During this difficult economy, I am especially pleased to advocate on behalf of this critical improvement for our healthcare system. I look forward to the positive impact that health IT will have on healthcare delivery in the U.S.”
A few of the more than 190 National Health IT Week sponsors spoke at the press conference, including Joanne Sunquist, CIO at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and a representative of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME); Justin T. Barnes, co-chair, Accountable Care Community of Practice and vice president of marketing, corporate development and government affairs at Greenway Medical Technologies; Charles Jarvis, vice president, healthcare services and government relations at NextGen Healthcare; and Charlene S. Underwood, MBA, HIMSS board chair and senior director of government and industry affairs at Siemens Medical Solutions.
"NHIT Week brings together the health IT community under one umbrella to raise awareness of information technology's positive impact on increasing quality while decreasing costs,” Underwood said. “With this technology in place, providers can more effectively deliver higher quality and consistent patient care and healthcare organizations can increase efficiency and reduce costs. A positive economic impact is that new health IT jobs are added to develop and implement more and improved HIT solution to advance care delivery. "
Congress, President Barack Obama—through his NHIT Week proclamation—and various federal agencies have made a commitment to leverage the benefits of the health IT and management systems to address the rising costs and safety of healthcare delivery throughout the U.S.
For more information about 2011 NHIT Week, visit here.
At a National Health IT Week press conference on Capitol Hill, Gingrey said, “During this difficult economy, I am especially pleased to advocate on behalf of this critical improvement for our healthcare system. I look forward to the positive impact that health IT will have on healthcare delivery in the U.S.”
A few of the more than 190 National Health IT Week sponsors spoke at the press conference, including Joanne Sunquist, CIO at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and a representative of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME); Justin T. Barnes, co-chair, Accountable Care Community of Practice and vice president of marketing, corporate development and government affairs at Greenway Medical Technologies; Charles Jarvis, vice president, healthcare services and government relations at NextGen Healthcare; and Charlene S. Underwood, MBA, HIMSS board chair and senior director of government and industry affairs at Siemens Medical Solutions.
"NHIT Week brings together the health IT community under one umbrella to raise awareness of information technology's positive impact on increasing quality while decreasing costs,” Underwood said. “With this technology in place, providers can more effectively deliver higher quality and consistent patient care and healthcare organizations can increase efficiency and reduce costs. A positive economic impact is that new health IT jobs are added to develop and implement more and improved HIT solution to advance care delivery. "
Congress, President Barack Obama—through his NHIT Week proclamation—and various federal agencies have made a commitment to leverage the benefits of the health IT and management systems to address the rising costs and safety of healthcare delivery throughout the U.S.
For more information about 2011 NHIT Week, visit here.