What a bunch of BS.. anyone who has worked in Health Care IT can tell you first hand, pretty much ALL EMR systems stink... none are interoperable.. EPIC, CERNER... et al.. .they are all proprietary systems designed to keep you locked in, its the business model of every one of them, there is no business incentive to release the data.
Problems with the VISTA scheduling component were at the heart of the VA problems with patients not being seen.
Etc etc etc...
To try to spin this as a POLITICAL act is NONSENSE... Anyone buying into some political conspiracy around EPIC being what it is because it gives to democrats is an abject ignoramous or a flat out moron.
I don’t think it was being spun as a political act, but rather as a serious flaw in electronic record keeping.
There was an obvious miscommunication at Presbyterian during Duncan’s first visit. The hospital is almost certainly going to get sued over it.
It’s important to highlight a problem that may be widespread so that it can be addressed.