05/19/2019
For almost a decade, I messaged thousands of my medical colleagues about the dangers of forcing us to use on-line, government-structured electronic medical records. Although I used a computer to maintain all of my own private practice patients starting in 1990, the genesis of this debacle started when Hilary Clinton was tasked with overhauling medical practice, and the HIPAA law (punishment for data breeches, forced sharing of records without consent) signed into law in 1996 by her husband. From my own early adoption of computers, I knew the EHR dream would become a nightmare—Government beurocrats not physicians, set the ground rules. I continued using my own server until fines and penalties from the government’s flagship-Medicare-rule maker finally made it impossible to effectively and sanely confidentially practice due to all the extra overhead from combatting the negative domino effect from government score-carding, health plan algorithms, and hospital credentialing. Rather than become a corporate employee and dumbing down to unsecured “collaborative care” hospital greed, I quit.
The below article and 4 part mini videos is truly validating, and it’s getting worse as almost 80% of doctors that stayed in are burned out. Nothing can stop the decline and eventual void in care that is coming.
The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion later, the system is an unholy m…
