KevinMD March 17, 2024
Cathleen Gould, MD

Imagine that Elon Musk had decided to buy Epic instead of the platform formerly known as Twitter. Imagine that he had developed his own EMR and informed every Epic user that they should watch their email for their assigned migration dates to the system he had developed, to be completed in the next 60 days. Anyone who has ever participated in the installation of a first EMR or the migration to a second knows that this would result in an unimaginable level of disruption to health care operations in many hospitals in the United States and around the world.

I am writing because this is an unimaginable scenario, but there is nothing at all under existing law to prevent it....

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