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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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Tom Daschle, HHS Secretary-designate: Keep It Coming, Love

January 15, 2009
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In what seems like a consistent extension of President-elect Obama’s recent statements on healthcare, Tom Daschle called for a rethinking of the problem, and constructive action to fix it, during a January 8th Senate Hearing.
This AAFP article summarized his statements nicely. As a primary care physician involved in medial IT and EMR’s, it’s difficult to [...]

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Obama And The Future Of American EMR’s

January 9, 2009
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On Thursday, President-elect Obama explicitly named EMR’s as a major part of his go-forward economic plan:
To improve the quality of our health care while lowering its cost, we will make the immediate investments necessary to ensure that within five years, all of America’s medical records are computerized.  This will cut waste, eliminate red tape, and [...]

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