Hi,
My name is Lowell Kleinman and this is my first time here. I wish it were under different circumstances.
As you know, there are often 2 sides to a story. Our perspective is that Al was asked on multiple occasions and by multiple people to tone down his posts. While we all appreciate his views the path to expressing them had become to paved with disparaging comments and mocking commentary. Recently he posted commentary and pictures of me and nazi outfits...the last straw for me.
So, he was publicly asked to cease and he decided to disregard the rules of our forum. The moderators as a group decided to ban him for 24 hours so as to make a point. There seemed to be no other option short of banning him permanently.
For the record, I have no relationship with NextGen or eCW or any other vendor other than that I use eCW as my EMR and I communicate in emrupdate regularly. I think it is inappropriate for Al to make statements about me in a public forum and I wish he would stop and perhaps take time to see his role in how things ended up this way.
Also for the record, I am still undecided about CCHIT. I am not a fan of governmental involvement with EMRs. I also worry about docs being tricked into buying EMRs that do not do as advertised. I am on the fence regarding CCHIT but were I forced to vote today I would probably opt for a free market approach given the track record of governmental involvement with health care.
Sincerely,
Lowell Kleinman, MD
Last edited by Lowell; 12/18/2007 2:50 AM.
