emr

At the article Blumenthal on EMRs: Debate "raging" over competition vs. standards (http://www.massdevice.com/news/blumenthal-emrs-debate-raging-over-competition-vs-standards), ONC czar David Blumenthal is cited as saying several interesting things:

Senator Grassley has sent a letter out to ten major health IT vendors seeking information on health IT problems and flaws.

The letter can be retrieved from this link (PDF) at the Washington Post.

Read the whole thing.

While I have nothing to do with this site, it contains in a dark-humor sort of way a lot of truths about the current state of the commercial EMR vendor marketplace:

SEEDIE, the Society for Exorbitantly Expensive and Difficult to Implement EHR’s

-- SS