{"id":179396,"date":"2018-02-22T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/22\/cheer-the-it-revolution\/"},"modified":"2018-02-22T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T01:40:00","slug":"cheer-the-it-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/22\/cheer-the-it-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheer the IT Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It turns out that the increasing use of electronic health records saves neither time nor money<\/a>, but this hasn’t stopped a rush by the government and the private healthcare industry from <\/p>\n

I thought of working words like \u201cdebacle,\u201d \u201cscam,\u201d or \u201cbezzle\u201d into the headline, but today is my day to be kind (and the entire topic really demands that I pull on my yellow waders and write another \u201cCredentialism and Corruption\u201d<\/a> post, which I might do at a later time). However, the headlines give a sense of what a bombshell this study should be for the EHR industry. On the spectrum from reluctant admissions all the way through to The Bezzle:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Electronic health records don\u2019t cut administrative costs<\/a> Harvard Gazette (February 20, 2018).<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Electronic Health Records Don\u2019t Reduce Administrative Costs<\/a> Harvard Business School (February 20, 2018).<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. EHRs fall short in reducing administrative costs<\/a> Health Data Management (February 21, 2018).<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Why health IT experts think Apple will succeed where Google failed with medical records<\/a> Health IT and CIO Review<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. An Introduction to Medicalchain: Blockchain for Electronic Health Records<\/a> CryptoSlate. (This is from February 8, but I couldn\u2019t resist.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The complete study (an \u201cOriginal Investigation\u201d) is here at the Journal of the American Medical Association<\/a>. Unfortunately, the study is paywalled, and the study material that JAMA exposes muffles the bombshell. From the abtract<\/a>, the methodology:<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    IT is going to change the world making unachievable claims based on bad\/non-existent evidence, and all we have to do throw money at them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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