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The EHR and Rage Against the Machine

July 19, 2016 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

a014097 (1)The EHR is the latest focus of our rage against the machine. Case in point: Chrissy Farr’s poke at the EHR in today’s Fast Company. Red meat for angry old doctors.

What might be interesting is to take a bunch of millennial doctors and make them work for a month with clip boards, fax machines, mailed letters and emulsion films on view boxes. Then we could write a story about the joy and efficiency of manilla folder medicine.

I suspect it would put things in perspective.

We fancy ourselves as victims of our technology. But while EHRs have a long way to go, it’s a longer way back to paper.

Image via NLM.

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