“The emerging national health IT policy coming out of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for health IT envisions 5 Policy Priorities. One of these priorities is Improving Population and Public Health, and Reduce Disparities. This is the kind of thing really only achievable at a macro level, beyond the scope of an individual medical practice.
For medical practices that are contemplating installing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, legacy systems that simply replicate an individual paper chart rack, and create a local and separate data store, are challenged by this policy priority.”
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers, 9 December 2009
