As Kentucky Goes, So Goes the Nation?

Dark horse Kentucky has moved to the front of the pack in states looking to lead in the development of eHealth systems.  Systems that provide the "safe, private" networked exchange of medical records between doctors, hospitals .  Last week, Kentucky's state Senate unanimously passed a health care information bill.  The bill is expected to be passed by the state's House and signed by their governor.

State Senator Daniel Mongiardo -- a practicing physician -- had the following to say about the bill in an op-ed...

Senate Bill 2 requires health care to enter the computer age, something that, oddly enough, hasn't really happened yet. While computers have certainly become part of our medical care, there is no health care information superhighway that speeds comprehensive information on an individual patient or the latest research on his condition to his physician.

Our health care delivery system is broken, still lumbering along with a largely paper-based system, particularly in terms of patient information. Information is not shared among physicians, wasting important time and making it much, much easier to make mistakes.

SB 2, legislation I've been working on for four years, would create that health care superhighway, an electronic health network in Kentucky that would give a physician access to a patient's medical history, while strongly protecting the patient's confidentiality and privacy. Furthermore, while considering a patient's treatment options, the network would offer physicians access to the latest research and newest techniques from the country's best medical facilities....

...SB 2 puts Kentucky on the cutting edge of a national trend. The need for a national health information network has recently gotten the attention of President Bush. With the passage of Senate Bill 2, supported by Senate President David Williams, Kentucky has the opportunity to leap ahead of other states and develop a system that could ultimately serve as the backbone of the national health information network.

Making Kentucky the center of the nation's health information network translates into high-tech, high-paying jobs for our citizens. The health care industry is the largest industry in the country, and it is still paper-based. The inevitable transformation to computers will be the largest market this country has ever seen. If Kentucky takes the lead, we will reap huge economic benefits in job development, expansion of research facilities and creation of new companies.

SB 2, developed with input from the health care industry and university representatives, envisions the expansion of the health technology centers at the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville. The goal is to develop a first-of-its-kind federal research center, which will help federal and state governments learn new ways to improve quality and reduce costs in health care, the fastest-growing segment of everyone's budget and one of the nation's biggest consumers of tax dollars. This research center would use our brightest minds to develop affordable, high quality health care. It would be an incubator for new health information technology companies. This center would move Kentucky forward as the national leader in health information science....

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