By Gusty Thursday, 23 June 2016 AMA American Medical Association Andy Gurman healthcare IT dissatisfaction Good Health and New AMA President Andy Gurman, MD on EHRs: " I don't have one, and no one can make me use one.". Elvonda The love-fest with EHRs continues, to the great chagrin of the believers in fairies, unicorns and cybernetic utopia. Andy Gurman, MD, Takes ...
By Gusty Wednesday, 13 January 2016 AMA Andy Slavitt cms James Madara Meaningful Use NPfIT ONC Good Health and Death of EHR "Meaningul Use" imminent. (Hopefully the death of the 'National Programme for Health IT in the HHS' is imminent, too.). Elvonda I've written a number of posts on the Orwellian-named "Meaningful Use" experiment with electronic health records systems, impo...
By Gusty Friday, 8 January 2016 AMA American Medical Association bureaucracy healthcare IT dangers ICD-10 Good Health and Repeated crushing by alligators and crocodiles: ICD-10 has you covered. Harmed by bad health IT? No codes for that.. Elvonda Your government at work, spending your tax dollars and making your doctors want to retire early due to increasing bureaucratic busywork. T...
By Gusty Tuesday, 17 February 2015 AMA healthcare IT dangers healthcare IT distraction healthcare IT risk HITECH Jeffrey A. Singer MD Wall Street Journal Good Health and Wall Street Journal: "ObamaCare�s Electronic-Records Debacle" . Elvonda This WSJ Op-Ed could have been entitled "President Sucker: Led Down the Garden Path by The Healthcare IT Industry." It is entitle...
By Gusty Wednesday, 16 July 2014 AMA American Medical Association California Medical Association JAMA MICRA Pennsylvania Medical Society Good Health and Professional Physician Organizations: A Continuing Necessary Ingredient for Ongoing Health Reform. Elvonda This JAMA article on "Professional Organizations' Role in Supporting Physicians to Improve Value in Health Care" reminds rea...