EHR has nothing to do with with saving costs and everything to do with tracking
Yes, I am sure this is another thing about which 0bama lied to us. He insisted that billions of health care costs could be saved by using EHRs, but it was always my feeling that the real goal was government access to all of our medical records and/or a plan to create dependency by medical providers on government for record-keeping.
I like the way you think.
The true purpose of the EHR project is just beginning to come into focus.
Ask yourself this: Why would a corporation or a “charity” invest tens of millions of dollars to REPLACE a fully-evolved, purpose-built record system with something completely different without understanding the ROI?
After all the blather about “population health” and “continuous quality improvement”, “patient engagement” and “clinical decision support”, you really have to ask, “where’s the return on our investment?”
Answer that, and you will understand what the EHR is all about.
Given the way that JAMA has blatantly lied to us about guns in the past, I’m disinclined to believe anything these liberal swine tell us.
AMEN! As a person who ran and owned a company dealing with computerization of doctor's offices, I can testify long and hard about this.
Fortunately I got out in late 1999, about the time HIPPA and electronic insurance claims were making the doctor's office a nightmare.
And bad handwriting.