Daily Archives Thursday, January 2009

EMR TAKES ANOTHER HIT AMIDSHIPS

A consistent refrain of some health care “reformers” is that electronic medical records can cure much of what ails U.S. health care. Not only will EMR save money, we are told, it will reduce medical errors. The EMR system that is invariably held up as the model to emulate is the VA’s VistA. Indeed, VistA is also held up as proof that [...]