Is it really necessary to do these so often, you may ask?
Sadly, yes.
Keep your chin up, buckaroo — it’s just three more years or so.
Dr. Nicholas DiNubile, a Philadelphia orthopedic surgeon, has a timely reminder for everyone encountering the federal health-care-exchange meltdown: “If you think signing up for ObamaCare is a nightmare, ask your doctor how the EMR [electronic medical records] mandate is going.”
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Modernized data collection is a worthy goal, of course. But distracted doctors are seeing “more pixels than patients,” Dr. DiNubile observes, and the EMR edict is foisting “dangerous user-unfriendly technology” on physicians and patients.
Instead of concentrating on care, doctors face exhausting regulatory battles over the definition of “meaningful use” of technology, skyrocketing costs and unwarranted Big Brother intrusions on the practice of medicine.
Remember when Wiggleroom said he was going to eliminate waste in healthcare delivery?
Good times.
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The wheels are coming off the clown car, buckaroo. For three more years.
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