diagnostic scans
ddobbs | March 2, 2009Over at Healthcare ZDNet, a site new to me, Dana Blankenhorn says
The Obama strategy for achieving health reform is now clear.
Get the money first. This changes the terms of the debate, from what will it cost to how do we do things more efficiently?
He's got a point, but it seems to me he's only half right -- or a bit less -- for the push to establish comparative effectiveness data based on (the establishment of) electronic health records also does much to answer how to do things efficiently. That data will help identify where expensive procedures and drugs bring benefit and where they don't…