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Health insurers are optimistic that the recent appointment of Dr David J Brailer as the first National Health Information Technology coordinator, along with the creation of a new unit within the Department of Health and Human Services, will be favorable for the industry. This is a significant step for the entire health-care industry, and it's important to advance the health and well-being of the entire country, said Dr Jeffrey Kang, national medical director for Cigna HealthCare. The issue, he said, is having good information about what's going on at the point of care. Brailer will be responsible for coordinating government agencies and private health-care companies in creating a national IT infrastructure. In addition, HHS said one of the new office's first tasks would be to study options to create incentives in Medicare and other HHS programs to encourage the private sector to adopt interoperable electronic health records.
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Health insurers are optimistic that the recent appointment of Dr. David J. Brailer as the first National Health Information Technology coordinator, along with the creation of a new unit within the Department of Health and Human Services, will be favorable for the industry.
In May, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson announced Brailer's appointment to the...See the full content of this document
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