A recent survey noted that despite almost $27 billion dollars of federal money spent on implementing electronic health records (EHRs) in the private sector, 70 percent of physicians believe that the adoption of EHRs has not been worth it.
We should not be surprised: The government cannot manage to get EHRs in two of its own closely related departments, Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD), to talk to each other, despite a cost estimate of $29 billion.
Read the entire column at The Independent Institute's Beacon Blog.
Research and commentary from a former senior executive in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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