“The BC-wide EHR initiative to date is failing interoperability, costs are beyond original planned federal matching funds, no strategic plan started until 4 yrs & $150 million spent, and doctors were only consulted this past year. The government is finally ready to assess physician adoption but are at least three years away from having an interoperable system in place. Perhaps this helps explain why still only about 5% of physicians have actually fully adopted an Electronic Medical Record system. Yet, in my private little world, my current EMR solution achieves what I need it do on a daily basis. (Please see the two articles from the Vancouver Sun written by Vaughn Palmer that are linked in this article and also appear in the references below.).”
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Robert M Schertzer, Wholelottarob, 2 March 2010
