Concerns about the push towards EHRs and PHRs:
I am becoming increasingly concerned about whether the push for national-scale EMR’s has created a “gold rush” where prospectors of varied honesty and ability have set out to ’strike it rich’ — by sucking every dollar they can out of an already strained healthcare system under pressure to ‘revolutionize care’ through computerization.
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yeah. lets function billions out of a system at the brink of collpse when there is a perfectly good system out there in public domain (VA’s VISTA/CPRS) that with a little work (from a billing perspective) could function ver well for all of us. Yo tell me Kevin what is wrong with the picture?
Matthew Holt on “thehealtcareblog” is one of the worst offenders here. He shouts and screams all day long about the high cost of healthcare, but its obvious he’s just an outsider who wants a piece of the healtchare pie.
He figures that he can join in business with his cronies and make millions pushing IT “solutions” for healthcare
EMR are expensive boondogles of unproven value, and a proven threat to privacy. Ultimately they are all about centralizing profit and control.
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