
Real Questions
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EMRs
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Electronic Medical Records: “To ONC, all CIOs and all CMIOs - Many Clinicians think your baby is ugly”
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Why are we still using data structures that are the same age of the FAX machine?
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Why can you not update your systems architecture in 1 business day if needed?
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Why is anyone other than a clinician designing the front end of any EMR?
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Why has HL7 and EMRs never been validated as a medical device?
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Why are you not using tech that can be read by a machine, a doctor, or the FDA alike?
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Why are you not embracing intelligence systems that can structure all medical information?
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Why do you discuss interoperability when some systems are the largest users of eFax?
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Why do we call e-prescribing electronic when it is just an electronic FAX?
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Why do many systems delegate physicians and nurses to a job of a data entry clerk?
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Why do some executives not want the doctor inputting data – is the system that poorly designed?
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Why do some executives not want the doctor inputting data - how is it going to get there - osmosis?
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Why do some executives think that all clinical is information is already in the EMR – or even can be?
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How is EMR innovation going to occur if we keep doing the same thing over and over with 50-year-old technology and expect different results?
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Why do some people continue to discuss interoperability as payer data or patient demographics and not in terms of real-time clinical communication centered on the patient?
