Comments on: OOPS: ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS DON’T ACTUALLY POSSESS MAGICAL POWERS

By: denver

denver — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:15:01 +0000

I dread getting referrals from doctors using EHR systems. Pages and pages of useless information and a short sentance about the patient’s condition and diagnosis, likely due to the physician not being a proficient typist. The overall quality of the information seems diminished.

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:09:59 +0000

Nice straw-man, Marc. Intetesting how you selectively dismiss clinical research. If this were an article about avastin failing to improve quality you would have (have had) the exact opposite reaction.

Of course tbe study, David’s piece, and the comment above have nothing to do with keeping doctors from modernizing their record keeping, only with government mandates and incentives, but you know that.

By: Marc Brown

Marc Brown — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:57:54 +0000

You’re right. I think all healthcare records should be written on parchment and stored in a cave by the Dead Sea.

By: John Schneider

John Schneider — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:55:20 +0000

Mr. Catron:

I’m with MO Medicaid, and I work with some of the issues precipitated by ARRA (Stimulus) and PPACA (Obamacare). After looking at the report to which you linked, my reaction was like that of my daughter’s favorite cartoon character, Scooby-Doo: “Ruh-roh!” One project that is really getting the push in MO is the EHR incentive payments under the HITECH portion of PPACA. The justifications I hear for this program boil down to 2 reasons: EHR is a silver bullet, and the feds are picking up the cost. May be bureaucratic inertia on my part, but I always worry that we are rushing in where angels fear to tread. Thanks for passing on the knowledge!