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.
Billing of course. Providers have to bill under increasingly complex and discrete codes.
I notice my pcp group’s EMR permits them to churn accounts constantly for me and their other patients to come in for “covered services” and regularly scheduled screenings.
Any other ideas, Jim Noble.
I notice we are in the same Freeper class, 98.