Totally agree. What is frustrating is that the 14% of us that went out a got an EMR will likely be the ones that don't get the stimulus money. The government should have seen this coming 15 years ago. All they did was allow us to use the VFW EMR, which, of course, was horrible.
From my perspective, the government should stay out of the EMR business and put all their time and money into a communication system where any doctor can communicate with another doctor at any time.
And, make it mandatory that every office precept a medical student so that said medical student could teach the doctor who has no computer skills has to use the communication system.
