[Sooth2222]

Until recently, health-care providers say, the company refused to share data with doctors and hospitals using alternative platforms. Now it charges exorbitant fees to enable the very interoperability the Obama EMR mandate was supposed to ensure. One malpractice-insurance group revealed that it found 147 cases “in which electronic health records contributed to ‘adverse events’ that affected patients” — 46 resulted in death.

The Obama EMR mandate follows the overall Obamacare pattern of making a bad problem even worse.

[Pearls Before Swine]

When they were discussing Duncan’s Ebola case, I remember hearing a comment that “his origin from Liberia was in the electronic record system.” I think the comment was some blame shifting about why his origin hadn’t been noted in deciding his treatment the first time he went to the hospital, as if having info buried somewhere in the system means everyone has done their job. It’s not the same thing as having the records be useful, and serving their purpose.