Thursday, March 12, 2009

Electronic medical Records

I've been hearing how these will save $80 billion a year for some time now. I've been responding "Horseshit!" It will save nothing. Zero. If it did, it would be lost in the noise, anyway. EMR will take on a life and cost of its own, and require new systems and skilled IT workers. What worries me most, though, a la the previous statistics discussion, is the intelligence of people who believe these kinds of things.

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