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Friday, November 22, 2013

Obamacare's ultimate pitfall

November 21, 2013

No, it's not that millions will lose their insurance. No, it's not even that your doctor or hospital might not be on your new plan. Rather, it's the consequences—both intended and unintended—of the breathtakingly stupid forced rush to electronic health records (EHRs), an integral part of the Affordable Care Act.

EHRs have long been touted as some sort of magic bullet that, all by themselves, would revolutionize health care. Imagine! You can replace those outmoded paper records with modern digital ones. Records would be available instantly, and could be shared as needed. Since doctors hate charting, the automated features built into EHR systems would streamline that miserable process, making it more reliable.

Backup systems would assure that records could not be lost or misplaced, and for so many more reasons...patient care would be drastically improved! In fact, one of the principal findings behind Obama's promise that the average American's health insurance bill would drop by $2500 per year was that merely by having EHRs in place, there would be a savings to the health care industry of $120 billion annually…..To Read More…
 

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