Doctors, too. One sentence in the stimulus bill mandating "meaningful use" of these mandated systems ballooned into ~700 pages of regulations, and a bunch of c

Doctors, too. One sentence in the stimulus bill mandating "meaningful use" of these mandated systems ballooned into ~700 pages of regulations, and a bunch of consultancies to help keep doctors and hospitals out of trouble, according to a friend in the field. And there are many related stories about doctors focusing on their computers instead of their patients as they fight with these systems (I kinda saw that once, but in all fairness the doctor had lost all her paper records in a tornado, I don't think she had anything left but her appointment book). In one worse case I read about, fighting the system until there were enough lights turned green. In general this is a very hard field, e.g. the U.K. NHS more ambitious effort was an abject failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health