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How Non-Transferable EHRs Have Affected Physician Practices

  |  Issue: July 2015  |  

So can we be saved by an innovator who understands that EHR systems should be helpful, not horrible, encourage creative thinking, not stifle it and keep the user thoughtfully engaged, not terribly discouraged?

As we approach launch day, in their hourly e-mails, our IT bosses constantly sing the praises of our new EHR. They foresee a brave new world of data acquisition. However, unlike Pavlov’s dogs, I am not salivating at this prospect.

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Simon M. Helfgott, MDSimon M. Helfgott, MD, is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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