I haven't included race in any chart since I was a house officer more than 30 years ago...doesn't really matter, if you are actually taking care of the person you can see what race they are. I get all sorts of surveys that ask for the racial distribution of my patient population. I can guess but have no earthly idea if my guess is right, it is some of this and some of that.
I think meaningful use is vapor, and expect that "the government" will try and use data ( ?quality and reproducibility?)collected in EMR throughout the country to push practice patterns towards what they have determined is "best practice".
Basically this amounts to a gigantic uncontrolled experiment involving human subjects without their consent. How did we get here?
