11/29/2014    

RESPONSES/COMMENTS (EMR) - PART 1C

RE: What's the Use of Meaningful Use? (Jeffrey Kass, DPM)

From:  Alan Sherman, DPM

 

Jeff Kass’s comments regarding the billions spent (19 billion in 2103 alone) on payment to doctors’ offices for accomplishing meaningful use was quite poignant and insightful. I have said again and again that we missed a huge, important opportunity when the ACA failed to establish interoperability and communications standards for EMRs. The network effect, whereby data gains enormous value when it is put on a network and made accessible, was totally missed in this legislation. 

 

It’s the 21st century, but we’ll still need to print and fax or, at best, send static PDF pages of our medical records when requested by another office, for a few years more. It's funny how we...

 

Editor's note: Dr. Sherman's extended-length letter can be read here.

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