[New comment] Boston Globe Article about EMR Problems (fwd)

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 > From: "Roger A. Maduro" <http://www.linkedin.com/~groups-noreply>
 > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:53:54 +0000 (UTC)
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 > <strong>Roger A. Maduro</strong> just posted a comment in EMR / EHR Clinical 
 > Transformation
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 > Boston Globe Article about EMR Problems
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 > http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/07/19/obama-pushed-electronic-health-records-with-huge-taxpayer-subsidies-but-has-rebuffed-calls-for-hazards-monitoring-despite-evidence-harm/OV4njlT6JgLN67Fp1pZ01I/story.html
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 > The Stark bill in 2007 proposed that if government funds were to be used to 
 > subsidize EHRs, then the EHRs should be open source so everyone could 
 > benefit from the improvements and openness. It was defeated by a massive 
 > lobbying campaign by the proprietary EHR vendors who spent over $100 million 
 > to make sure no such bill every passed. What the Boston Globe article misses 
 > is while $30 billion were spent to subsidize lousy and expensive proprietary 
 > EHRs, medical facilities (hospitals, clinics, and doctors offices) have 
 > spent collectively over one trillion dollars installing them. Wonder why 
 > Sutter Health now charges $55,000 for a simple appendectomy?
 > 
 > Roger A. Maduro
 > Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Open Health News