Bobby Jindal

Our View: Jindal cause gets a push

Our View: Jindal cause gets a push

Baton Rouge Advocate Editorial
June 16, 2008

The new governor of Louisiana...hosted an event at the State Capitol that reflects a concern with a specific issue that he has worked on for more than a decade in various capacities: electronic health records.

Jindal, 37, might have changed jobs a number of times during his career, but concern about the low level of information technology in health care has been one of his causes, albeit in differing posts, during that career.

As governor, he applauded Wednesday the decision of the U.S. government to fund a pilot project that would improve the information technology in doctors’ offices.

The doctors would get a small cash incentive in their payments from Medicare to fund purchases of computers and software that allow records to be kept in electronic form. While that sounds simple, it is actually a reasonably complex policy problem: The small practices are emblematic of the decentralized nature of the American health-care system.

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