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July 25, 2008 at 01:10 PM
The cheapest way for the federal government to encourage use of health information technology might be to simply require providers to adopt it.
Peter Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, has presented that suggestion in a written version of testimony delivered Thursday at a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee health subcommittee.
Another approach would be for the government to pay providers who adopt health IT systems more than it pays providers who do not adopt the systems, Orszag says in the written version of the testimony.
