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Physicians sound off on EHRs

By The Atlantic  
   April 09, 2014

I am a recently retired family physician and was formerly a physicist. Fifty years ago I was programming a mainframe computer in Fortran and am currently using the Python language to pursue several interests. I have experience with 4 different EHRs. Though not a computer expert, I am neither a technophobe nor a Luddite. My purpose in writing to you is to draw your attention to the elephant in the room. In brief, the rollout of electronic health records ("EHRs") in the United States is a story of unremitting folly, lack of leadership, opportunities wasted, and a stiff dose of medical academic hubris.

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