This is deja vu all over again from the early days of computer accounting programs, where your bank's program would accept a key slip that allowed it to be three or four decimal places off, and not blink an eye. Contrast that with mature programs like the software that tracks your visa card and that will put a lock on the card 10 seconds after it is used for a $20.00 purchase that does not fit your profile. It is possible for the EHR to make good on all of its promises, but between the "bureaucracy genes", fantastical privacy worries, and the lack of common standards we are just not going to be getting close anytime soon.
Last edited by dgrauman; 03/05/2011 3:48 PM.
