As many a Canadian doctor has discovered, negotiating the circuitry of electronic health records can be a mind-numbing challenge.
Some, like Ottawa physician Dr. Heath Alsaffar, call it “a colossal headache” that often leaves doctors who take the electronic plunge mired in myriad issues of cost and connectivity (www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.109-3929 and www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.109-3930).
The situation is even more problematic for physicians in the United States, where regulators have made “meaningful use” of electronic health records a necessary condition to receive Medicare and Medicaid payments.
(www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.109-3361).
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Redstone, Kayla, CMAJ, Online first, DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.109-4090
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