Pearls Before Swine? Hospital gets an "F" on Informatics

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Tue, 04/15/2008 - 16:50

I've commented at "External oversight needed for hospital EMR implementation " and "Yet another clinical IT controversy: UC Davis " on the enormous amounts of money for EMR's being spent by HC organizations.

I consider such costs unreasonable, and feel they are largely due to suboptimal management and/or mismanagement of these initiatives.

I've personally observed how this drives up costs in both hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry.

I cannot fail to be stunned when I observe...


 

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