Frank Bures: The $36 billion boondoggle of electronic medical records

Electronic medical or health records (EMRs) are the computer programs now in almost every doctor’s office. They have become not a boon — but a bane — for both doctor and patient, and boondoggle to the tune of $36 billion dollars of federal (our) money. This was the assessment of a very well researched article by Erika Fry of Fortune magazine and Fred Schulte of Kaiser Health News called “Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong” in a 2019 issue of Fortune magazine.

And this “ain’t news.” An editorial from the Oct. 22, 2015, New England Journal of Medicine by Lisa Rosenbaum, M.D. dissects the issues of EMRs even more clearly. How many...