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Harvard Says Computers Don't Save Hospitals Money
Lucas123 writes "Researchers at Harvard Medical School pored over survey data from more than 4,000 'wired' hospitals and determined that computerization of those facilities not only didn't save them a dime, but the technology didn't improve administrative efficiency either. The study also showed most of the IT systems were aimed at improving efficiency for hospital management — not doctors, nurses, and medical technicians. 'For 45 years or so, people have been claiming computers are going to save vast amounts of money and that the payoff was just around the corner. So the first thing we need to do is stop claiming things there's no evidence for. It's based on vaporware and [hasn't been] shown to exist or shown to be true,' said Dr. David Himmelstein, the study's lead author."
Who is the biggest bogeyman on slashdot? That parasitic creature known as the "manager." He is the one that apparently sucks all the profit from the artists in the RIAA world. He's the one that keeps coders from programming efficiently in the business world. Now we learn he also keeps doctors from doing their work in the medical world. Seriously - when are you slashdotters going to realize that part of the reason that nobody takes you seriously is because your analysis is so junior high level?