Larry I read your articles and it seems that this is already at the  
unstoppable position. Like a 16 year old that doesn't want to know how  
to signal or where the emergency brake it, they just want to drive the  
car.

Like a lot of things this administration is doing, they pass laws  
legislators do not have the time to read. They are implementing EHR  
with no workable platform.  They should lock IBM, Microsoft, Google  
and six other big players in a room and like a jury trial tell them  
they can't come out until they have a communication system that  
interfaces across all their companies.  Make them fund a central  
entity to make sure everything communicates.  Make those who sell the  
system insure it so they don't create medical liability for innocent  
victims. Tort reform would be nice too.

They should also mandate that all systems need to be American made and  
insured. At least help our own economy. And if something goes wrong,  
you can sue them right here not have them disappear back into some  
third world country.  As you said, the IRS and the FBI have  
embarrassed themselves jumping into systems without research. No  
trials just whole hog immersion in a fragile system.

Nothing is ever incremental today. The people in this group can see up  
close what folly this EHR will be. Doctors and hospitals are scared to  
death about such a fast conversion with no standards, no answering of  
questions like you discuss in the articles.

Obviously the computer and software companies who will benefit from  
this can't move fast enough.  But those who grab funding will be  
crushed later on as whatever they buy now will be obsolete in 24  
months. Migration is unachievable.

If this has to be one and it is already law, then they should create a  
Manhattan project where the big boys develop a plan that all can  
supply. Where liability for deaths are part of the game for them.  The  
fact that contracts already punish whistleblowers is amazing.

Great articles.  As usual your references are impeccable.

Hugh Smith
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