Lack of Health IT Shows Market Failure
- By Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
- Special to Roll Call
- March 9, 2008, 11:59 p.m.
Our health care system is in serious trouble. I have heard from countless Rhode Islanders struggling to pay for health care and afraid of losing insurance coverage on which they and their families depend. I have met nurses frustrated and heartbroken that they must spend so much time filling out paperwork and so little time caring for patients. I have talked with families whose lives and health were shaken by terrifying medical errors — misplaced paperwork, mistaken diagnoses — that should have been avoided.
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