“The campaign to replace the country’s paper medical files with interoperable electronic records is backed by the full force of the federal government, including tens of billions of dollars. The basic strategy is to entice and/or coerce the country’s 800,000 or so doctors to go electronic.
Meanwhile, the campaign to sell 300 million or so patients on the benefits of electronic medical records is … pretty much nonexistent. There is no organized effort to win over the hearts and minds of a constituency that has the most to gain or lose–people whose health care will be affected directly.”
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John Pulley, NextGov, 18 June 2010
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