Every Hospital Should Adopt EHR

While I’m sure this tweet will rub many the wrong way, I found it incredibly thought provoking. I have no idea who this person is that tweeted it, but I think that his tweet represents the majority of Americans who know very little about EHR and Health IT.

From a layman’s perspective, in every industry the use of IT has benefited that industry. Those not living in the EHR world just automatically think that by applying IT to something that we’ll see a huge benefit. Those of us in the EHR industry no doubt have a much more nuanced feeling about the benefits of EHR. I’m sure the guy who tweeted above won’t be happy with the meaningful use hardship exemptions which will defer organizations from being #finedheavily.

While I agree with the idea that we need broad EHR adoption, I think we have to be careful trying to rush any EHR implementation. A rushed EHR implementation is far worse than no EHR.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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