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Boston Herald March 28, 2019
Texting while driving is so dangerous that it’s outlawed. But doctors and nurses are expected to care for patients while keeping their eyes glued to a computer screen, following prompts and clicking boxes. Some electronic health record systems require 62 clicks just to order Tylenol, and a full emergency room shift involves 4,000 computer clicks. No wonder mistakes are rampant.
Going digital was a good idea, but Washington hubris turned it into a costly mess. President-elect Barack Obama announced in 2009 that he’d make sure “all of America’s medical records are computerized” within five years. Only a handful of hospitals and 17 percent of doctor’s offices used them at the time.
Government force was employed to...
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