President of the American College of Physicians on Electronic Medical Records

I've taken so much flak over the years for being an "anti-EHR zealot", "a critic of the use of computerized medical records in hospitals", or similar canards [see note below] that I am letting someone else be a spokesperson today.<br /><br />I am simply posting a link to this essay by <a href="http://www.acponline.org/about_acp/leadership/executives_staff/#pres">Virginia L. Hood, MBBS, MPH, FACP</a>, President of the <a href="http://www.acponline.org/">American College Of Physicians</a> (ACP) with only one comment:<br /><a href="http://www.acpinternist.org/archives/2011/10/presidents.htm" target="_blank"></a><br /><blockquote><b>Electronic Medical Records have Yet to Fill Their Potential</b><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.acpinternist.org/archives/2011/10/presidents.htm" target="_blank">http://www.acpinternist.org/<wbr>archives/2011/10/presidents.<wbr>htm</a><br /><br />From the October <i>ACP Internist</i>, copyright © 2011 by the American College of Physicians</blockquote><p></p><br />Read the whole essay at that link.<br /><br />Nearly every issue mentioned is addressed extensively on this blog since 2004 and at my educational website "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Contemporary Issues in Medical Informatics: Common Examples of Healthcare Information Technology Difficulties</span>" <a href="http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/">at this link</a>. The latter site was started not just last month or last year, but in <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1999</span>.</span><br /><br />My only comment is that I was more than a decade ahead of my time in recognizing and writing about many of the issues she discusses. Sadly, few were listening; now physicians are not just being encouraged, but in fact <span style="font-style: italic;">prematurely coerced</span> to adopt this technology - in the deficient state as it exists today - by HHS. Tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars have been earmarked for our 'National Program for IT in the HHS.'<br /><br />Ready, shoot ... aim.<br /><br />-- SS<br /><br />[Note] In reality, I am a critic of the use of <span style="font-weight: bold;">poorly designed, poorly implemented and poorly managed clinical IT</span> in hospitals.

President of the American College of Physicians on Electronic Medical Records

I've taken so much flak over the years for being an "anti-EHR zealot", "a critic of the use of computerized medical recor...

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