“The Obama healthcare plan hinges on savings achieved through the implementation of electronic medical records (EMRs) and pays doctors $44,000 over 5 years for hardware and software to embrace this evolving technology. Let us not forget however, that garbage in produces garbage out, for instance, information not suitable for medical decision making.
In reality, data entry is daunting and by far the most expensive aspect of converting to electronic records. Huge amounts of patient data resides in the IT “silos” of insurance companies, hospitals, pharmacies and laboratories. It could pre-populate EMRs, should the principles decide to share it, which largely they have not. Some of the data is accurate, some certainly is not.”
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Winslow W. Murdoch, KevinMD.com, 17 September 2009
