Comments on: Pie in the sky and electronic records http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/pie-in-sky-and-electronic-records.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: DocJohnhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/pie-in-sky-and-electronic-records.html#comment-86336 DocJohn Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:28:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/06/pie-in-the-sky-and-electronic-records.html#comment-86336 C'mon, how naive is it to think that a single electronic system is the universal solution for every physician and healthcare system everywhere?<br/><br/>The key isn't the system, it's the interoperability and ensuring all systems can import/export records to and from one another without any type of pre-existing agreement in place (so much for Google Health), or proprietary data schemas. It is not saying, "You all must use System X, regardless of whether it fits your practice or business model." C’mon, how naive is it to think that a single electronic system is the universal solution for every physician and healthcare system everywhere?

The key isn’t the system, it’s the interoperability and ensuring all systems can import/export records to and from one another without any type of pre-existing agreement in place (so much for Google Health), or proprietary data schemas. It is not saying, “You all must use System X, regardless of whether it fits your practice or business model.”

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/06/pie-in-sky-and-electronic-records.html#comment-86334 Anonymous Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:24:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/06/pie-in-the-sky-and-electronic-records.html#comment-86334 Ominously, the Rs favor electronic records also. <br/>The truly bad ideas, like McCain-Feingold, No Child Left Behind, corn-based biofuels, and electronic records, often enjoy enthusiastic bipartisan support.<br/>Primary care docs - as envisioned by our politicians - will become data entry techs who are forbidden to think. Ominously, the Rs favor electronic records also.
The truly bad ideas, like McCain-Feingold, No Child Left Behind, corn-based biofuels, and electronic records, often enjoy enthusiastic bipartisan support.
Primary care docs – as envisioned by our politicians – will become data entry techs who are forbidden to think.

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