AMA says EHRs create 'appalling Catch-22' for docs - And just how many experts does it take to screw in a light bulb, anyway?

(NOTE:  this post, being about minor matters like death and financial mayhem, is particularly and unusually [even for me] biting and lacking in euphemisms and political correctness.  If you are easily offended and want the latter, and/or believe we all need to be 'nice' about banal issues like patient injury and death, fraud, and other minor matters, click here:  http://www.disney.com and skip the post below.) You were warned.--------------------------------------- At some point, so-called EHR "experts" and pundits need to stop being accommodated for their having ignored years of warnings, complaints, "anecdotes" -a particularly egregious term that comes from those who don't understand risk management, especially academics of the echo chamber-egghead subspecies (link) - and other signs that health IT is not a beneficent, omniscient gift from the Lords of Kobol. (The latter is a pun on the business-IT programming language Cobol, of course.)Instead, they simply need to be ridiculed for being stupid.I will do so:  folks, you have been, and remain, stupid:The Bovine Stare of Incomprehension (click to enlarge)The Bovine Stare of Incomprehension describes the reactions I've gotten over the years to many warnings about health IT.  It was like talking to a cow.So now there's this: AMA says EHRs create 'appalling Catch-22' for docsMay 03, 2013 | Tom Sullivan, EditorAs the healthcare industry moves to EHRs, the medical record has essentially been reduced to a t...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Julie Creswell upcoding Reed Abelson AMA healthcare IT risks Fred Schulte fraud ecri institute Source Type: blogs