“In the abstract, government officials love EHRs , but in the concrete world of practice, few hospitals and doctors use them, and even when they do, hospital and doctor EHRs rarely speak to one another.
Here is David Blumenthal, MD, National Coordinator of Health Information, speaking in the abstract He is responsible for implementing the government’s HITECH Act, designed to put EHRs in every doctor’s office and every hospital’s clinical unit.”
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Richard Reece, Medinnovationblog, 9 March 2010
