Comments on: Are Electronic Medical Records Just “New-Fangled Electronic Silos”? http://ajfortin.com/2008/09/12/are-electronic-medical-records-justnew-fangled-electronic-silos/ Musings on health care policy, china, biking, music, and other pursuits Tue, 26 May 2009 07:33:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mohammad Al-Ubaydli http://ajfortin.com/2008/09/12/are-electronic-medical-records-justnew-fangled-electronic-silos/#comment-2373 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:55:30 +0000 http://ajfortin.com/?p=865#comment-2373 This is very sad for me to watch. In the USA, the introduction of Stark Law “reforms” was promoted as allowing hospitals to make investments in new technology on behalf of physicians’ offices as the latter could not afford the large-scale investments.

However, the law also says that once one hospital makes an investment, no other hospital is allowed to also provide the tools. This in turn that each physician’s office is tied to sharing data with only one hospital.

This is a tragic waste of an opportunity for improving patient care.

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