That may be true to a certain extent and we may even see start seeing an upsurge in the development and implementation of these Health Information Exchange softwares. However, as Sharon rightly explained in her blog, there are really tough IT challenges as far as integrating individual States's Health Information Exchange Software to the Federal hub.
"In addition, fully implementing the exchanges requires most states to upgrade their Medicaid systems. as well. While improving the Medicaid systems offers the promise of streamlining the process and reducing fraud and duplication, some of the systems are decades old. In January 2012, a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that only one state, Oklahoma, had a fully-automated Medicaid enrollment system that could process applications in real-time, noted Politico."
We've heard somuch about the perversive fruad taking place in the Medicaid and Medicare programme. Do you think thisnew Health Information Exchange will beable to minimize oreven eleminate the fraud that's intrinsic in these two programs? Do you also think that the fraud problemis an IT problem?
I think that making the states create exchanges is probably a bad idea. Sure, it makes sense for the federal government to funnel money to states for Obamacare but it is obviously going to causing problems. Technical glitches and delays will likely be rampant because of this scenario. And you also have to consider that some Republican states are not even being cooperative at all.
It's too bad that the federal government was not able to come up with a solution in terms of IT for Obamacare. I expect to see a patchwork of systems that link up to Washington, with varying degrees of success.
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