Comments on: State Government Electronic Signature Guidelines http://esignaturepost.com/2009/06/03/state-government-electronic-signature-guidelines/ Yet another Electronic Signature weblog Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:32:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike Ambrose http://esignaturepost.com/2009/06/03/state-government-electronic-signature-guidelines/#comment-404 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:35:43 +0000 http://esignaturepost.com/?p=115#comment-404 Interesting article in September’s Atlantic monthly speaks directly to this issue. David Goldhill discusses how health care is the only industry where technology has increased costs rather than reduced them and has some interesting insights into why, and how government unwittingly created this system 50 years ago.
So we probably do need government to lead real reform efforts to get this sort of change. Then we can sell doctors and hospitals on the benefits of going paperless!

]]> By: David Wall http://esignaturepost.com/2009/06/03/state-government-electronic-signature-guidelines/#comment-403 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:51:40 +0000 http://esignaturepost.com/?p=115#comment-403 Well, I wouldn’t look to government to lead in any of these areas. Heck, I was just told that medical records in many hospitals/clinics are on paper because going electronic is too expensive.

Somehow they missed the fact that electronic records via computers has been the major force in reducing costs and improving efficiency at just about every business in the world over the past 50 years.

If we just had one more regulation….

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