Many doctors have negative views toward changes they believe hamper their ability to treat patients. To that end, I read with great interest Medscape’s new report about how several recent articles on electronic health records had generated a flood of responses from physicians, many of them intense, emotionally charged and diverse.
Physicians have long felt the brunt of change in healthcare. Reimbursement has stagnated, compliance obligations are going through the roof and insurers and new payment models dictate how they practice medicine. Electronic health records seem to fall into a different category, however, since many physicians embrace them.
