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Electronic health records have been way oversold. Expecting every little medical office to have industrial-grade data protection makes them far more of a liabil
by fricat1ve 8y ago
Electronic health records have been way oversold. Expecting every little medical office to have industrial-grade data protection makes them far more of a liability than they are worth.
At best mostly subjective observations, at worst full of outright errors, they're largely useless from a health care perspective let alone for research purposes.
- gervase 8y agoIn my (relatively limited) experience, most small medical offices pay for cloud-based EHRs on a subscription basis for this exact reason. Have you observed differently? With regards to the usefulness of medical records, I don't know enough on the topic to address that point.
- jacquesm 8y ago> In my (relatively limited) experience, most small medical offices pay for cloud-based EHRs on a subscription basis for this exact reason That mostly increases the size of the bucket without much in terms of guarantees of the maintainers of that bucket getting it right.