Healthcare IT Today March 11, 2019
Many observers have noted the incongruity of the US federal government paying out billions upon billions of dollars in the Meaningful Use program to convert health organizations to electronic records. No other industry required incentives (or subsidies, or some might even say bribes) to strive for the obvious improvements represented by digital technologies. I might add that no other industry has adopted these digital technologies to so little benefit.
Now that 86% of physicians have an EHR, we can ask why they have made so little progress exploiting digital technologies for such advances as eliminating routine tasks, exchanging health data, or using analytics to improve care. Certainly, a lack of incentives are partly to blame, and payers need to be...
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