Electronic Health Records Breed Digital Discontent For Some Docs

Electronic Health Records Breed Digital Discontent For Some Docs

All original KHN material – articles, graphics and videos – can be used for free, if you credit us and link to us. Learn moreTwo years and $8.4 billion into the government's effort to get doctors to take their practices digital, some unintended consequences are starting to emerge. One is a lot of unhappy doctors. In a big survey by Medscape this summer 38 percent of the doctors polled said they were unhappy with their electronic medical records system.Dr. Mary Wilkerson is one of those doctors. Her small family practice in Denver made the leap to an electronic health record five years ago, with some pretty high expectations. "We were told by

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  1. Kaiser Health News

    169.0 days ago

    Electronic Health Records Breed Digital Discontent For Some Docs, @CPRWhitney reports: http://t.co/mJ4wCNV1

  2. Brian Ahier

    169.0 days ago

    #EHR's Breed Digital Discontent For Some Docs (via @KHNews) http://t.co/xy0uOED9

  3. KentBottles

    169.0 days ago

    Electronic Health Records Breed Digital Discontent For Some Docs - Kaiser Health News http://t.co/rfOtIyb9 via @khnews

  4. Harry Greenspun, MD

    169.0 days ago

    #EHR switch: The challenge with the carrot-and-stick approach #Medicare is using: the carrot’s kind of hard to get to http://t.co/urszgqjK



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