Was that digitization required by Obamacare?
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Yes. There was an expensive mandate for all medical records to be electronic. There may have been a subsidy for early adapters. There was a deadline and fines thereafter.
I know a semi-retired doc who works for a clinic that is cash only ($39 exam, some tests and some drugs)and I recall his wife saying they do not use the electronic system. My doc friend was railroaded out of his mainstream hospital gig, denied admittance privileges and in general treated badly for making his conservative views known...this was several years ago. I think he lost his assisted living contracts and various health insurance Board positions, as well. He does moonlight in the ER of a tiny private rural hospital hanging on by the skin of its teeth, if it is still extant.
He isn’t in Nebraska, by any chance?
Sounds like my kind of doc.