New AMA President Andy Gurman, MD on EHRs: " I don't have one, and no one can make me use one."

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New AMA President Andy Gurman, MD on EHRs: " I don't have one, and no one can make me use one."

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The love-fest with EHRs continues, to the great chagrin of the believers in fairies, unicorns and cybernetic utopia.Andy Gurman, MD, Takes Reins as AMA PresidentJun 17, 2016Gale Scott, HCPLivehttp://www.hcplive.com/medical-news/andy-gurman-md-takes-reins-as-ama-presidentThe...

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Death of EHR "Meaningul Use" imminent. (Hopefully the death of the 'National Programme for Health IT in the HHS' is imminent, too.)

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Death of EHR "Meaningul Use" imminent. (Hopefully the death of the 'National Programme for Health IT in the HHS' is imminent, too.)

Unknown 1/14/2016 Komentar

I've written a number of posts on the Orwellian-named "Meaningful Use" experiment with electronic health records systems, imposed upon United States physicians by the Department of Health and Human Services through its Office...

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Repeated crushing by alligators and crocodiles: ICD-10 has you covered. Harmed by bad health IT? No codes for that.

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Repeated crushing by alligators and crocodiles: ICD-10 has you covered. Harmed by bad health IT? No codes for that.

Unknown 1/09/2016 Komentar

Your government at work, spending your tax dollars and making your doctors want to retire early due to increasing bureaucratic busywork. The new ICD-10 coding system they must now use has codes like these, in case you...

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Wall Street Journal: "ObamaCare’s Electronic-Records Debacle"

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Wall Street Journal: "ObamaCare’s Electronic-Records Debacle"

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This WSJ Op-Ed could have been entitled "President Sucker:  Led Down the Garden Path by The Healthcare IT Industry."It is entitled "ObamaCare’s Electronic-Records Debacle", as below.  First, though:On Feb. 18,...

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