TY - JOUR
T1 - Smart Technology, Stunted Policy
T2 - Developing Health Information Networks
AU - Starr, Paul
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Ideally, computer networks should help raise the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and enable consumers and providers to make smarter decisions. But government and the private sector have failed to resolve such critical problems as the protection of medical privacy and production of reliable comparative data on plans and providers. While individual enterprises are building information networks, community networks serving public purposes have lagged. An information revolution in health care is in the making, but the hope that it will allow consumers and providers to make smarter choices is still far from being realized.
AB - Ideally, computer networks should help raise the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and enable consumers and providers to make smarter decisions. But government and the private sector have failed to resolve such critical problems as the protection of medical privacy and production of reliable comparative data on plans and providers. While individual enterprises are building information networks, community networks serving public purposes have lagged. An information revolution in health care is in the making, but the hope that it will allow consumers and providers to make smarter choices is still far from being realized.
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U2 - 10.1377/hlthaff.16.3.91
DO - 10.1377/hlthaff.16.3.91
M3 - Article
C2 - 9141326
AN - SCOPUS:0013605506
SN - 0278-2715
VL - 16
SP - 91
EP - 105
JO - Health Affairs
JF - Health Affairs
IS - 3
ER -