The reason for EMR’s is data mining by insurance companies and .gov. To control costs by not paying if you do not do as they say. It is costly and killing small private practices. I know it is killing mine. I know what is happening and I am giving up.. In 2 months I am leaving my practice and becoming an employee of a hospital. Why? i can not keep the doors open with this mandate. Slows the practice down too much. Can not see enough patients to make enough cause of decreased income and increased cost. The hospital pays me much more. Work much less. No call. Payed vacation. I will get 4 weeks a year. I have not taken a week off for 16 YEARS. Not worth the fight anymore.
The medical transcription field in America, which was 100,000 strong, has been destroyed by the implementation of EMR. The jobs have gone to India and the Philippines, although those countries do not impose the harsh fines for divulging confidential info that US MTs were subject to. This is a nightmare waiting to happen.
Do you mind me asking how old you are? 250K doctors are over 55, out of a total of about 600K doctors.
I went to see my doctor last week for my checkup. He was telling me all about it. He's part of a hospital now, instead of the small group practice he was in. One of his partners retired rather than be part of it. The mandated computer system would have cost him $100K.
The government wants people to be employees of increasingly-large corporations. It makes us easier to keep under control. What is Communism but everybody working for a single huge corporation called the State?