To make you even more dumbfounded by this slight of hand, in the US those electronic records were paid for you the tax payers (or, more accurately, billed to the national debt taxpayer tab). The government pushed for RHIOs and EHRs, with lots of money dumped into networks that eventually had terrible business planning and became unsustai…
To make you even more dumbfounded by this slight of hand, in the US those electronic records were paid for you the tax payers (or, more accurately, billed to the national debt taxpayer tab). The government pushed for RHIOs and EHRs, with lots of money dumped into networks that eventually had terrible business planning and became unsustainable. They forced doctors offices to join in the network even if they preferred paper. Another unethical trick was opting patients in without consent. Now they hide the data behind HIPPA.
To make you even more dumbfounded by this slight of hand, in the US those electronic records were paid for you the tax payers (or, more accurately, billed to the national debt taxpayer tab). The government pushed for RHIOs and EHRs, with lots of money dumped into networks that eventually had terrible business planning and became unsustainable. They forced doctors offices to join in the network even if they preferred paper. Another unethical trick was opting patients in without consent. Now they hide the data behind HIPPA.