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American Medicine

Not To Beat A Dead Horse…

June 22, 2009
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..but in case you weren’t paying attention to President Obama’s address to the AMA, you had better be getting thee hence to an EHR system.

This is no longer a matter of electronic records being an interesting but problematic alternative to paper charting. That hasn’t been the case for some time, by the way.
The President of [...]

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Ah, Tom, We Hardly Knew Ye

February 5, 2009
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He had experience in Washington, and was aggressively lobbying for health care reform.
He was clearly pro-medical IT.
Most impressive, he emphasized the central role of primary care medicine in repairing our upside down physician reimbursement system.
Naturally, he was destined to fail.

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EMR’s And American HealthCare: Just Because It’s Impossible Doesn’t Mean It’s Complicated

October 21, 2008

There’s an awful lot going on these days.
Increasing awareness of the plight of American Medicine. Costs way up, access questionable, uninsured numbers growing. Primary care disappearing, and inverted in proportion to specialist:PCP ratios in other countries. The Graying of America. Talk about universal health care. Healthcare costs as being the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy [...]

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