"Meaningful Use" not so meaningul: Multiple medical specialty societies now go on record about hazards of EHR misdirection, mismanagement and sloppy hospital computing

The "Meaningful Use" program for EHRs is a mismanaged boondoggle causing critical issues of patient safety, EHR usability, etc. to be sidestepped.This is on top of the grossly mismanaged and unregulated U.S. boondoggle which should probably be called "the National Programme for IT in the HHS" - in recognition of the now-defunct multi-billion-pound debacle known as the National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT), see my Sept. 2011 post "NPfIT Programme goes PfffT" at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/09/npfit-programme-going-pffft.html.The complaints are not just coming from me now.As of January 21, 2015 in a letter to HHS at: http://mb.cision.com/Public/373/9710840/9053557230dbb768.pdf, they are now coming from the:American Medical AssociationAMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care MedicineAmerican Academy of Allergy, Asthma and ImmunologyAmerican Academy of Dermatology AssociationAmerican Academy of Facial PlasticAmerican Academy of Family PhysiciansAmerican Academy of Home Care Medicine American Academy of NeurologyAmerican Academy of OphthalmologyAmerican Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck SurgeryAmerican Academy of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Association of Clinical EndocrinologistsAmerican Association of Neurological SurgeonsAmerican Association of Orthopaedic SurgeonsAmerican College of Allergy, Asthma and ImmunologyAmerican College of Emergency PhysiciansAmerican College of Osteopathic SurgeonsAmerican College of PhysiciansAmeri...
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