Yes, because I am a lurker that was moved to post by the degree to which I disagreed with the article. Please restrict yourself to actually arguing with the con

Yes, because I am a lurker that was moved to post by the degree to which I disagreed with the article. Please restrict yourself to actually arguing with the content of my posts, and not going ad hominem. It's both against the rules of HN, and just shitty. You say "pushed a stagnant industry", I say "hostility to small practices." Large hospitals were already moving onto EMR to better handle the volume of their data, if not already having done so. It's small practices that couldn't afford things like EPIC, and were forced to move onto free, ad-revenue-driven crap like PracticeFusion that just made everything slower and worse, without improving shit for patients. Are some patients better off for it? I think so. I appreciate web portals, which wouldn't have existed otherwise. I don't appreciate the death of small practices, the majority of whom are now selling out at cost to large hospital chains.