The Nashville Business Journal reports on a talk that Steve Ballmer gave at the Nashville Health Care Council. The main point of his speech was the distance that health care has to go to catch-up to technology. Yet, it is an area which can benefit extensively from improvements in health care.
“I’m optimistic. The money is coming. The national debate has been engaged. And now is the time where our industry may be able to step up with some enabling factors and make an even bigger difference,” Ballmer said.
It is amazing that health care technology seems to lag so far behind other sectors, yet technology offers so much that can improve our profession to improve patient safety and health. It can even allow us more time to interact with patients. After all, that is what we went into practice for.
