http://blog.srssoft.com/2010/02/government-ehr-teetering-on-the-backs-of-physicians/ From Evan Steele, CEO SRSsoft Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:12:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://blog.srssoft.com/2010/02/government-ehr-teetering-on-the-backs-of-physicians/comment-page-1/#comment-4806 Thomas Griffin,M.D. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:55:44 +0000 http://blog.srssoft.com/?p=874#comment-4806 Aside from all the meaningful use talk, I haven't heard anything spoken about the cost to physicians of data storage. Where will all the data be strored? Photographs, radiology images, pathology images, and everyday notes and procedure notes. Will doctors have to pay vendors to store data? How much will that cost as the data builds up over time? Aside from all the meaningful use talk, I haven’t heard anything spoken about the cost to physicians of data storage. Where will all the data be strored? Photographs, radiology images, pathology images, and everyday notes and procedure notes. Will doctors have to pay vendors to store data? How much will that cost as the data builds up over time?

]]> http://blog.srssoft.com/2010/02/government-ehr-teetering-on-the-backs-of-physicians/comment-page-1/#comment-4791 David Bernitsky, M.D. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:04:02 +0000 http://blog.srssoft.com/?p=874#comment-4791 This governmental refusal to be practical and pragmatic in it's rush to EMR will be yet another impetus for early physician retirement. It's not as if Medicare doesn't already overburden every physician office in the country with mandates and paperwork. Many of us are on the brink of quitting anyway - this will just make that possibility a certainly rather than a likelihood. This governmental refusal to be practical and pragmatic in it’s rush to EMR will be yet another impetus for early physician retirement. It’s not as if Medicare doesn’t already overburden every physician office in the country with mandates and paperwork. Many of us are on the brink of quitting anyway – this will just make that possibility a certainly rather than a likelihood.

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