Doctors are forced to switch EHRs, or face being booted out of Boston-based Partner’s Health Care. Way to stick it to the little guy, who often has zero financial support to make the switch.
I can see Medicare and other big-payers using the same bullying tactics to force EHR adoption.
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Good way to get your insurance plan dumped. What’s next, are the insurance plans going to dictate what kind of office furniture I can have?
The give the docs a choice of two EMRs. What if neither record has security procedures that satisfy my own commitiment to the Hippocratic obligation to keep my patients confidentiality? Just another core physician obligation out of my hands I guess. One of the final steps of reducing physicians to technicians and patients to a commondity. All standardized.
I’ll bet that when the guys who made this rule have something embarassing going on medically, they go out of network.
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