Health IT: The next gold rush?

Kevin

Tech

June 9, 2007

Concerns about the push towards EHRs and PHRs:

I am becoming increasingly concerned about whether the push for national-scale EMR’s has created a “gold rush” where prospectors of varied honesty and ability have set out to ‘strike it rich’ — by sucking every dollar they can out of an already strained healthcare system under pressure to ‘revolutionize care’ through computerization.