6th Annual World Healthcare Congress, Day One, Part Four
by jingemi
The fourth keynote dealt with market forces. The panel included Steve Burd (Safeway), Newt Gingrich and Gary Ahlquist (Booz and Company). The question of Health IT actually came up in the discussion. The question was how to assure adoption and interoperability without bureaucracy. Speaker Gingrich advocated that the government set out requirements on interoperability and use and perhaps, provide some subsidy. However, he said that government must not dictate the exact technology. Such a dictate would freeze technology in its infancy. I must admit I agree with this position.
