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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE RESOLUTION |
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| INTRODUCED BY FOLMER, BAKER, WILLIAMS, TARTAGLIONE, GREENLEAF, STOUT, RAFFERTY, BOSCOLA, McILHINNEY, EARLL, ARGALL, ERICKSON, FARNESE, O'PAKE, FONTANA, COSTA, ALLOWAY, PILEGGI, DINNIMAN, WASHINGTON, WONDERLING, WARD, BROWNE, PIPPY, STACK AND D. WHITE, APRIL 17, 2009 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY, APRIL 17, 2009 |
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| A RESOLUTION |
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1 | Designating Tuesday, May 5, 2009, as "Pennsylvania Health Care |
2 | Information Technology Awareness Day" in this Commonwealth. |
3 | WHEREAS, Health care costs represent 16% of gross domestic |
4 | product nationally; and |
5 | WHEREAS, Seventy percent of health care transactions are |
6 | paper-based; and |
7 | WHEREAS, The health care industry invests only 5% of revenue |
8 | on information technology and management systems versus 10.5% of |
9 | other data-intensive industries such as banking; and |
10 | WHEREAS, The President of the United States recently signed |
11 | the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which |
12 | allocates $19.2 billion to invest in health care information |
13 | technology; and |
14 | WHEREAS, A study by the Commonwealth Fund has demonstrated |
15 | that the use of automated clinical decision support systems can |
16 | result in the net reduction of $538 per patient per hospital |
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1 | stay; and |
2 | WHEREAS, The Institute of Medicine reports there are at least |
3 | 1.5 million preventable adverse drug events per year, each |
4 | adding more than $8,700 to the cost of a hospital stay; and |
5 | WHEREAS, The United States spends more than $1.9 trillion on |
6 | health care a year yet one-half of that spending is unnecessary |
7 | and spent on clinical and administrative waste, theft and excess |
8 | costs; and |
9 | WHEREAS, The American Hospital Association reports that |
10 | Pennsylvania’s hospitals and health systems are outpacing |
11 | hospitals nationally in their adoption and use of clinical |
12 | information technology and information management systems; and |
13 | WHEREAS, Health care providers in this Commonwealth report an |
14 | improved ability to recruit physicians coming out of medical |
15 | school when advanced information technology is employed at their |
16 | sites; and |
17 | WHEREAS, Despite its leadership in this area, only 17% of |
18 | Pennsylvania hospitals report that most of their medical |
19 | practitioners routinely use information technology for clinical |
20 | interventions such as ordering medications; therefore be it |
21 | RESOLVED, That the Senate designate Tuesday, May 5, 2009, as |
22 | "Pennsylvania Health Care Information Technology Awareness Day" |
23 | in this Commonwealth; and be it further |
24 | RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize the importance of raising |
25 | awareness of health care information technology and the vital |
26 | role it will play in helping to save lives and reduce the cost |
27 | of health care for all Pennsylvanians; and be it further |
28 | RESOLVED, That the Senate welcome friends, supporters and |
29 | members of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems |
30 | Society on their visit to Harrisburg and the State Capitol to |
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1 | promote better health care in this Commonwealth through broader |
2 | adoption of advanced health care information technology and |
3 | management systems on that day. |
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