This is so very sad.
I thought we were done with meaningless use, but NO!
Doctors are just a bunch of wimps.
I do not understand the reluctance -- is it fear, or what? -- to stand up and say ENOUGH!
Medical records have deteriorated almost to to the point of uselessness under "meaningful use." When I get the Friday dumps from big Portland hospitals to our little nursing home in Astoria, they are never accompanied by any sort of useful records -- there may be 20 pages of useless garbage, but I look in vain for a single page summary of what happened. The med lists are often wrong.
Can you imagine a world in which a brief phone call was made by the hospital doc to the receiving nursing home doc? Or a handwritten note that got faxed?
How absurdly 20th century. But you know, it worked!
