Chief Medical Informatics Officer: Betrayed?

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Thu, 03/26/2009 - 11:19

In thinking further about the "hold harmless" and "defects gag clause" originated by Health IT vendors and agreed to by hospital executives as I described at Have Hospital Executives Violated Their Fiduciary Responsibilities by Signing Such Contracts?

, I can state I feel a sense of (past) betrayal.

Only now do we formally find out that hospitals have been literally "dumping" on physicians by signing contracts with the HIT vendors leaving the docs "holding...


 

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