Dr. Nicholas DiNubile, a Philadelphia orthopedic surgeon, has a timely reminder for everyone encountering the federal health care exchange meltdown: “If you think signing up for Obamacare is a nightmare, ask your doctor how the EMR mandate is going.”
Bingo.
The White House finally acknowledged the spectacular public disaster of Obamacare’s Internet exchange infrastructure during Monday’s Rose Garden infomercial. But President Shamwow and his sales team are AWOL on the bureaucratic ravages of the federal electronic medical records mandate. Modernized data collection is a worthy goal, of course. But distracted doctors are seeing “more pixels than patients,” Dr. DiNubile observes, and the EMR edict is foisting “dangerous user-unfriendly technology” on physicians and patients.
Instead of concentrating on care, doctors face exhausting regulatory battles over the definition of “meaningful use” of technology, skyrocketing costs and unwarranted Big Brother intrusions on the practice of medicine.
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Personally this has affected everyone one of my doctors which means it has or WILL affect me soon or later. My primary quit and went with an agency, my new primary has formed some sort of agency with other doctors and I'm not sure WHAT all that is about. So far this new health plan scenario has only caused me grief.
Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of medical transcriptionists (mostly older citizens) that are now out of a job. Next step is an electronic chip under your skin so Big Brother can track you and listen in on your conversations, just like the new cell phones that are being "given" away.
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