Intel: Health IT Has Effective Products, Ineffective Spending.

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At a meeting with reporters Feb. 27, Intel's head of health IT touted upcoming products, but said that he didn't see how the U.S. market would pay for them.

What's at issue is not whether the technologies would improve care or bring down health care costs, but how insurers, patients, doctors, and employers would foot the bill for them.

Louis Burns, manager of Intel's Digital Health Group, also said that Intel would become more active in establishing common health IT standards.

"'At hospitals,' the single largest spend...

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