KevinMD August 14, 2022
I spent a year as a UCSF postdoc with the leaked tobacco documents. And this article is taken directly from the tobacco-control playbook. In the tobacco wars, we learned that: when a disease is caused by a for-profit industry, the only successful approach is regulation first, followed by treatment.
Here is exactly how and why doctors should regulate EHR and regain control of their cognitive environment.
1. Organize, and stop the infighting. Eric Topol made a clear case for the need to organize. Doctors need to organize nationally on behalf of patients and on behalf of themselves and other disciplines.
In the U.S., the profession has been balkanized from without. They face an excess of administrators without clinical insights. And...