Obama EMT investment – Government reacting to market failure

NYT story notes how the investment to create incentives to single practice physicians is classic textbook reactionto market failure:
… only about 17 percent of the nation’s physicians are using computerized patient records, according to a government-sponsored survey published last year in The New England Journal of Medicine.“This is really not a technology problem,” observed Erik [...]

E-Records Transition Can be costly

BBC reports one manager in Britain very upset over the cost to his organization:
Andrew Way, chief executive of London’s Royal Free Hospital, said technical problems had cost the trust £10m and meant fewer patients could be seen.
The Department of Health said lessons had been learnt from the trial.
The England scheme, part of a £12bn IT [...]