A consistent refrain from health care “reformers� is that electronic health records will cure much of what ails our medical delivery system. Not only will EHR save money, they tell us, it will improve quality. Not so fast says the Archives of Internal Medicine:
Our findings indicate no consistent association between EHRs … and better quality. […]
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OOPS: ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS DON’T ACTUALLY POSSESS MAGICAL POWERS
EMR SECURITY AND A CURIOUS IRONY
Am I the only one who has noticed that the very people who told us that electronic voting machines can’t be hacker-proofed are now telling us that electronic medical records will be perfectly safe and secure?
The cognitive dissonance associated with being a contemporary “progressive” must be awful. Perhaps that’s why they still seem so miserable even though their […]
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 government […]
HEALTH CARE IT: THE TRUE STATE OF THE ART
Many health care reformers and politicians, including our President-elect, peddle the idea that government-sponsored dispersion of health care technology will cure much of what ails our medical delivery system.
Dr. Bobbs links to a great post in which Dr. Rick Peters explains why this is hopelessly naive. It begins with the following brutal (but all too accurate) indictment of the […]
OBAMA STILL PEDDLING EMR SNAKE OIL
Saturday, the President-elect unveiled a “modern version of FDR’s New Deal,” which he claims will help the struggling economy. Passing lightly over the fact that the original version of the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression, what interested me was his remarks about electronic medical records:
The economic recovery plan I’m proposing will help modernize our health care […]
EMR: WHY DOCTORS ARE UNDERWHELMED
For some reason, health care experts are puzzled as to why U.S. physicians have been slow to adopt electronic medical records. The answer isn’t very complicated, as Kevin, MD explains in USA Today:
The primary reason is financial. Upfront costs — which include purchasing servers, computers and software — can be as high as $36,000 per physician … In addition, the […]
DOCTOR OBAMA’S EMR SNAKE OIL
Although it is becoming increasingly obvious to serious policy wonks of all political persuasions that Health IT is not the panacea it has been made out to be, Barack Obama is still peddling EMR as a magical elixir. Newsweek has a good piece about this particular brand of Dr. Obama’s snake oil:
He claims that a […]
WHY EMR HASN’T CAUGHT ON
Lots of bandwidth has been devoted to explaining why EMR hasn’t really caught on, but nothing I have seen captures the essence of the problem as well as Extormity, a brilliant satire of the typical health care IT company. Here’s the opening blurb:
At the confluence of extortion and conformity lies Extormity, the electronic health records mega-corporation dedicated to offering highly proprietary, […]
EMR: PROGRESSIVE PANACEA
One way single-pay advocates kid themselves about the cost of government-mandated “universal” health care is to ascribe magical powers to EMR. Typically delusional on this point is Maggie Mahar, who advises her readers that electronic medical records “guarantee many fewer errors, and much greater efficiency.”
I have been an enthusiastic advocate of EMR implementation in every hospital with which […]